Chris Jans on Return of Tolu Smith to Mississippi State Lineup

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00:00 I'd say it's too early to tell if it's gonna be that much different.

00:05 I know he's a tireless worker and he's constantly trying to,

00:10 like you said, add to his game, improve his range.

00:15 Again, one game's too small of a sample size, like you said.

00:20 But he's just so comfortable out there because of his experience.

00:25 I thought he showed pretty good patience for

00:27 the most part to wait for the space to be cleared for him to go to work or

00:32 make the appropriate pass.

00:33 He had the one pass that he threw to the other team.

00:35 But other than that, I thought he was real comfortable out there.

00:39 But we'll see if he can continue to build on that and, like you said,

00:44 show some expansion of his game going forward.

00:49 No, I haven't been given any sort of limitations that way.

00:54 Prior to him playing in the game against Bethune-Cookman,

00:58 he had been basically released from minute restriction or

01:02 rep restriction in practice.

01:04 So he was full go a couple days prior to that particular game.

01:09 And I didn't have any minute restriction, like I said,

01:12 that was given to me from the trainers or the doctors.

01:15 But they knew that he wasn't gonna play 35 minutes or anything like that.

01:20 I mean, that wasn't what I wanted him to do.

01:23 It worked out really well going forward.

01:25 We talked about it after the game on Sunday, how that looks and

01:30 how his minute distribution goes with Jimmy and him and

01:34 the other guys that play that position.

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