This is exactly what's wrong with the game.
Yes, I was balanced all season. However, I wasn't in this game. The WRONG guy took the most shots - that's part of the point of what's wrong. In fact, his distro was FAR lower than other players who shot less.
It doesn't matter that no one is lights out from three on our team. Against a -5, even a modestly talented guy should be able to shoot as if he's lights out. Otherwise there is no negative to setting at -5 every single game unless someone has several highly talented perimeter players and sets them all to +2 with high distro, which even if they have those guys they probably don't do that every single game.
His team is good, mine is better, and by enough that if the engine had my guys shoot like it should have, we should have won in a landslide against a -5. Again, it seems like settings don't have any negative features. Go -5, win the game even when you shouldn't.
No uptempo because he has good defensive values. Or perhaps you are right - I should have gone uptempo, since I've noticed THAT setting also seems to have no downside. You can run uptempo all you want and it doesn't matter what the other team does or how good their defensive ratings are, you won't turn it over any more than at normal or slowdown.
Seriously, I want to know where the "penalty" comes in for playing at some lopsided settings. Where is the increase in turnovers for uptempo against a good defense? Where is the getting killed by threes even by half decent perimeter guys for playing -5? Where is the huge rebound differential for playing +5?
Without those factors, the settings don't have much meaning.
BTW, I don't see this game as a toss up at all. I honestly see it as going about 60/40 in my favor, all else not considered. With him at -5 and my distros and threes the way they were, I honestly thought I was 90+ percent to win when I started reading the play by play. Then my settings apparently didn't matter, and we only shot 10 threes (and only hit three? against a -5 that's a low percentage) and the wrong guys were shooting. It was like my settings didn't even work.