Penn St 38 Illinois 33… Worst Game I’ve Ever Seen
I watched the Illinois Penn St game last night and it was the most brutal display of basketball I’ve ever seen. Besides the fact that the ref let them play basic tackle basketball it was atrocious. The halftime score was 17-15 which is bad enough.
I was watching and asking if it was just good defense and a lot of times it was just good defense but bad offense was really what it was. Illinois settled for guarded shots and wasn’t patient enough to get the ball inside consistently and they didn’t shoot a foul shot the entire game. That’s a testament to simply not taking the ball strong to the basket. Nothing was easy and what was easy was made difficult with missed layups and turnovers.
At one point in the 2nd half Illinois went up 29-20 but only scored 4 points the last 8 minutes of the game. I was literally sick inside.
Have you ever found yourself watching videos of people getting hurt and you can’t turn away? I can’t turn away a lot of times and I even find myself searching for those types of videos. I know it is horrible of me. That was Illinois last night. They were the train wreck, the kickboxer breaking his leg and the skateboard crash where the guy snaps his leg all rolled into one.
I have watched literally thousands of games in my career and the only thing I could compare it to was jr. high girls basketball. It was that bad.
