Tweaked player tendencies to lower most players with 99 drive tendency (lowered to 85-90) and raised a bunch of mid range tendencies.
Base difficulty at HoF. From there adjust:
Lower jumpshot defensive strength sliders to 20 for cpu and user. I also lowered release timing sliders
Raise *CPU* on ball/lateral quickness/defensive awareness/defensive consistency sliders to around 93.
Lower durability sliders to 5-10 (to try to get more injuries).
Raise shooting foul sliders to 100
Go into user and cpu defense menus and manually put every player into “auto” mode. Everyone is set as “custom” by default. And even if it does say they’re listed as “auto” you have to manually adjust it to auto again yourself. Reason being is double teams are NEVER set to “auto” by default. So in order to get proper doubles you have to manually adjust every player to auto.
I can go more into detail but that’s a synopsis. My game plays nearly perfect. I get 20-30 free throws a game for both sides. I have shooting sliders for CPU at around 56 and shooting sliders for myself at around 51. Honestly I have no intention of buying 2K23. I spent months and months building my all time roster to perfection and really don’t want to do it again. But 2K did the ONE F***in thing that could get me to buy 23 and that’s update MJ and put attention into his likenes.