You were using sliders at the time?
I think it's related to the strength slider. But I think the strength slider also builds a force-field around the players. I took it down from my previous set (I think it was 74), because I felt like that force-field was making it even harder to blow by guys on the perimeter. Now, I feel like you can get by guys on the perimeter as you should and do in the NBA. Also, I can't stand to watch the CPU guards and small forwards dribble into a player for 5 seconds. I think this is what lessened it (and ballhandling and OFF AWR).
It's a give and take. But I'm happy with what I gave for what I took.
Other than that, I don't know what it could be. I do see some pretty sick moves made by the CPU in the post that I didn't before. But that's either scrutinization or something else.