The flip side to this is the new Pull And Hold feature on defense, which is essentially cheat-but-don’t-get-caught. As your defender is adjacent to an opposing player, using B/Circle causes your player to physically interfere by grabbing and jockeying for position. Just don’t do it too long or too blatantly, as it’s a surefire path to a foul.

What I can say is that the game’s new physics engine, which focuses heavily on weight and momentum, now factors into controls. For example, one-on-one situations offer right-stick weight balance controls. This should affect how quickly you can juke or how well you can protect the ball. In theory, this is a groundbreaking idea, one that could pass down to the next generation of sports games. However, I couldn’t pull this off regularly, and I couldn’t tell if I just never got the right feel for the timing or if the necessary finesse requires too much precision to be accessible.