Tramon Mark After SEC Loss to Georgia
Arkansas Razorbacks guard Tramon Mark with the media after loss to the Georgia Bulldogs on Wednesday night in Athens, Ga.
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00:00 What happened in the second half?
00:02 What was the difference between y'all being
00:04 a little bit better offensively compared to the first half?
00:07 I would say we just got better looks
00:13 probably in the second half.
00:16 The ball started moving a little bit more,
00:18 and that resulted in better looks for us.
00:22 You did most of your damage in the second half.
00:24 Personally, just was -- did you try to take it upon yourself
00:27 to try to make something happen offensively
00:29 or is that something that you had seen in the first half
00:32 that might be available for you or what went into that?
00:35 I didn't try to take it upon myself.
00:38 Being aggressive and I was rewarded with some foul calls
00:42 because I was being aggressive and I saw shots that I liked.
00:46 Didn't make some of them, but, you know.
00:51 Bob?
00:54 Hey, Jermon.
00:56 Sorry, I just got on here.
00:58 You guys, I guess, trailed the entire game,
01:00 kind of dug a hole there 13 in the first half
01:02 and kept fighting back.
01:04 I guess, how tough is it to, you know,
01:07 on the road to come all the way back,
01:09 but it seemed like you guys still showed a lot of fight?
01:12 Oh, yeah, we definitely showed fight in the second half.
01:14 I'm proud of our team for showing that fight.
01:16 We didn't have that last game at home,
01:19 so I'm definitely a step in the right direction,
01:21 but we still got more stuff to take,
01:24 a lot of stuff to take,
01:26 but it's still not the outcome of the war.
01:29 And, you know, again, you guys actually had a shot to tie it,
01:33 and Khalif missed a three, and then Derrahim, he hit a three.
01:41 I think it was 0 for 7 from the field.
01:42 That was the only shot he hit,
01:44 but that three that KB almost hit
01:46 and then the three that they got from a guy
01:49 who hadn't hit a shot all game, how big were those plays?
01:53 Yeah, that was a big shot for him.
01:55 I remember that.
01:57 I closed out on him.
01:58 I wasn't all the way there, and he just rose up,
02:01 and that was his one big shot that he made,
02:03 and it mattered.
02:04 That was the one that mattered the most,
02:06 and when that KB shot, it was a good shot.
02:10 It just didn't go in.
02:12 I'm sorry if you ever got asked this, but the turnovers,
02:14 I think they outscored you all by 15 in points
02:16 to have turnovers.
02:18 What were the issues taking care of the ball
02:20 and just how frustrating was that?
02:23 Yeah, that was frustrating.
02:28 We had 10 turnovers in the first half,
02:30 and 10 turnovers in the first half is unacceptable.
02:35 We should have 10 turnovers for the whole game, I feel like,
02:37 so that part, that's another reason we struggled
02:41 going down in the first half.
02:44 But like I said, we fought in the second half.
02:45 We fought back.
02:48 That's what we wanted.
02:50 And now you got to go to Florida.
02:52 Another tough road game,
02:54 but do you take some positives from this?
02:55 And I know you guys are staying on the road
02:57 going straight to game, so just kind of how do you bounce back
03:00 and get ready for Florida, staying on the road?
03:04 We got to be more solid.
03:05 Like I said, our fight in the second half was great.
03:06 We knew that for 40 minutes the whole time.
03:11 It was got to be more solid on defense,
03:12 be more sound on defense.
03:14 And I think we're still a good team.
03:17 We got to fix it.
03:19 We got to fix it.
03:21 Final question. Jackson?
03:23 Yeah, I mean, three for 21 from three-point range,
03:30 do you feel like you guys hadn't been too bad
03:32 of a three-point shooting in the non-conference struggle
03:34 the first two games of the SEC?
03:36 Do you guys feel like the shots just aren't falling,
03:39 or are you guys maybe not getting the same looks
03:41 you had in previous games?
03:44 Not falling.
03:46 Not falling.
03:48 Like I said, we're not falling.
03:50 Like I said, we got good looks.
03:52 I shot over four from three.
03:54 My last three was a great look.
03:57 I think I shot one that was a kind of a force,
03:59 but all the other ones were good looks.
04:02 Yeah.
04:04 But other guys like KB, TB got great looks.
04:08 Keyon got great looks. I passed him in transition.
04:10 He got great looks. We got to make them.
04:12 We want to make them in the night.
04:13 Devo got great looks. We just didn't make them.