It certainly could have been worse! This feels like a game where Odom’s Tigers would have crumpled and given up 55. For all of the bad that this game had — and trust me, there was a ton of it — “effort” was certainly not one of them. The game started to feel like an elongated, televised scrimmage after the first half, but that’s okay; Drinkwitz kept most of his starters in to get reps against a superior team and run some schematic stuff live.
That’s exactly what I’d want him to do. But this was also a game that counted for real, so let’s take a look at the advanced boxscore.