The saddest game

Landon played a Basketball game tonight against Provo Canyon School. This was such a sad situation. The kids came out with another kid in street clothes as their coach. They all had different colored shorts and just dark colored t-shirts with tape on them for their numbers--by the end of the game, half of the numbers had fallen off. Some guy came out at the beginning of the game and said thanks for coming, we are glad you are here to support the kids, but this is a treatment facility and we ask that you stay in the building, mainly for privacy reasons. When it was over, he came back and said Thanks for coming, now everyone needs to leave.
The refs were letting almost everything go on their end and the refs were also trying to help coach the kids and they would tell them that they were getting close to 3 seconds in the key so that they would move. They would let them travel a lot. It was pretty much jungle ball. Landon got to play quite a bit though and it was never really close. I think that was really good to show his coaches how good he really hustles. He was a little off on his shot (since I took him with me to Twilight at midnight--such a bad decision) and he only got about 4 hours of sleep. He did have several assists though and overall he played good. These pictures are so bad, but you get the picture. The final score was 26-70. You can kind of see the taped on numbers and everything. I felt like crying several times and I just wanted to go out and hug these poor boys.
They had a few parents there to support their school and one of them had a little Asian/Hispanic boy who did hustle pretty good. I turned to his parents and said "good hustle" and she said in broken English "he is so good, we are so proud of him. He passes the ball to everyone and he does good". So sad. I have really good kids--hug your kids tight and let them know you love them and keep them out of places like this.