With a couple minutes left in the first quarter against Father Tolton, Jefferson City coach Mark Anderson wanted to send a message to his Jays.
Father Tolton had just missed two free throws, but the Jays failed to get the rebound off the second miss to give the Trailblazers the ball back.
Anderson called timeout and had the team meet out on the floor.
"In order to win this year we're going to have to rebound," Anderson said as the Jays went 0-3 in Thursday night's Jamboree at Rackers Fieldhouse. "We're going to have to gang rebound and have everybody do their job. We've been harping on that in practice. Obviously I was not pleased with our effort and attention to detail."
The Trailblazers went on to win that scrimmage 24-18. The Jays also fell 23-18 to the Helias Crusaders and 27-19 to the Blair Oaks Falcons.
The Jays were able to cut into the Trailblazers' advantage with a couple minutes left when Ben Folz made a layup off a steal to make it 16-13.
"I think we were better after that," Anderson said of the timeout in the first quarter. "Our practices have been really good, our effort has been really good. I thought we played hard tonight, kind of misguided at times. That's why you play this jamboree is to see some of those things."
The Jays didn't score again until Folz made two free throws with 5 seconds left.
Jefferson City did go toe-to-toe with Helias, taking an 11-7 lead late in the first of two six-minute quarters on a bucket by Michael Appiah-Brefo.
The score was tied at 11 at the end of the quarter.
Brenden Hoener made it 16-13 Jays with 3:02 left, but Helias finished the game on a 10-2 run.
"I was pleased with how we played against Helias," Anderson said. "We bled too many possessions. And we had the ball at the end of the first quarter and should have had the last shot and we turned it over and fouled them. We had a tie game at the end and we turned it over. All the things we saw tonight are fixable."
Jefferson City fell behind 9-2 against Blair Oaks, but did fight back to pull within 17-15 on a Levi Jobe layup to begin the second quarter.
That's as close as it would get as the Falcons went on a 10-4 run to close it out.
Jefferson City opens the regular season Tuesday at Sedalia Smith-Cotton.