Jalen Johnson

And I just remember Kevin Byard the whole time.

He was like, man, talking ain't going to help us execute.

Like, we need to stop talking and doing all this and settle in.

And then really just at halftime, that was the biggest thing.

Like, it can't get no worse than this.

Like, I mean, at the end of the day, it's –

it's 21-3 almost 21 blow but i think too like coach showed us a video like a whole breakdown during the during camp of the falcons and patriots game when they went up 28-3 and all that and just shows like the composure yeah he showed that uh that to us early so just like talking to joe tooney telling because he was on the winning side of it and then jerry was on the losing side of it so

having both of them get their perspectives on it and then it really just he brought it back up like this is that moment like think back to the conversation that we had and what it took for for them to get back into it is one possession at a time defense gets stopped often start putting points on the board and that was really it so when we came out on defense it was like man we got to get stopped if we we figured if they didn't score no more then we'll win the game so but that's all we were focused on really on defense just executing and playing more aggressive

I mean, it's hard to say the sole reason.

I think...

For one, just the timing.

I would say of everything, the only person to get credit for that is God, of course.

But I think really just the timing of when Ben got here, when Caleb got here, when a lot of these pieces all got here.

I think it would be different if he got here three, four years ago.

The team looked different.

Situation is different.

But I would definitely say his leadership, his competitiveness has definitely changed the trajectory of basketball.

how we looked at approaching games.

And again, too, I mean, you can be a good leader all you want, but you're dialing it up on offense as well, and he's always been doing that.

I think just the way he controls the game, even going into that game, he was like, if we win it, we want to receive, we want to control the tempo, control the ball,