Once you see the forest through the trees, you will appreciate the Toledo basketball team’s 75-63 loss to Ball State on Tuesday was just one no good, very bad night.
But the Rockets are not there yet.
They’re still looking up at the trees.
Toledo watched — and that’s the operative word here — as the bigger, more urgent Cardinals did their thing high and low — but mostly down low.
This was the kind of night Rockets fans feared most, the answer to what happens when you miss everything, somehow can’t rebound anything, and misplace the fun, underdog edge that intrigued this city the past three weeks.