I've noticed in the past few weeks that my teams all seem to get off to really slow starts across the board.

Starting a game down 11-2, 0-7, etc makes for a long climb back.  Am i missing an aspect of game planning that I've never realized factored into the way a team starts a game?  Other than setting distribution, offensive speed, etc I'm stumped.

Nope.  These things just happen sometimes, and happen in clusters sometimes.  It gets frustrating to see it, and when it happens it's glaringly obvious, but it's just a random thing, assuming teams of the same general quality.

There aren't any settings you can tweak to score or play D earlier that you wouldn't tweak to just, like, score or play D better.

The frustrating one is when you get a long cluster of losing three point or less and overtime games.