Chris Jans on Mississippi State's First Loss at Georgia Tech
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00:00 You know, we talked ad nauseum about the type of team we were going to play tonight.
00:05 They lost two in a row.
00:07 I said, can you imagine what we were going to be like if we had lost two in a row?
00:12 They got a top 25 team coming in and it's rally the troops.
00:17 Their practices had to have been the best since the game portion of the schedule that
00:21 arrived.
00:23 The coaches are upset.
00:24 The players are upset.
00:26 And what a great opportunity for their team to strike back and change the momentum of
00:31 their season.
00:32 And I didn't do a good enough job, obviously, the way we came out of the gates.
00:38 You know, what I just asked them at the end, I'm like, anyone that has a clue about basketball,
00:45 you know, has a relative idea of what's going on out there, could they not tell the difference
00:51 between our effort in the first half and the second?
00:55 They're all like, yeah, what's the problem?
00:58 You know, do you not believe in me?
01:00 Do you not listen to me?
01:02 You know, I don't have all the answers, but I told you what we were about to face.
01:06 So I obviously didn't have a great pulse for it because we played different.
01:11 We came out in the second half and we had five of our first 11 possessions.
01:17 We had turnovers, you know, so we didn't really get to capitalize on how hard we were playing
01:21 because we were really defending.
01:23 And then, you know, every loose ball, every bounce went their way there for a stretch
01:27 where we thought we could turn the tide.
01:28 But at the end of the day, you know, we put ourselves in a deep hole and they took advantage.
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