It looked awfully like the All Black lineout fell apart; that they couldn't win much quick ball at the breakdown and that their decision-making was shut-their-eyes-and-hope at times.
Hansen still believes it was an important 80 minutes that gave the All Blacks the perfect challenge.
He got exactly what he wanted from Murrayfield - a younger team full of players who rarely start, put under 80 minutes of serious pressure.
Scotland tackled hard, hit rucks hard, competed at the lineout and used the ball with a bit of skill and enterprise.
How well they played wasn't a surprise. The All Blacks have a heap of players who have been exposed to intense pressure many times. They have a core of players who are probably the mentally toughest there has ever been.
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But they have a group of younger players such as Charlie Faumuina, Sam Cane, TJ Perenara, Charlie Piutau and Malakai Fekitoa who haven't experienced it quite so much yet. They need to because pressure is what the World Cup will be all about and with the vagaries of injury and form, who knows who will be on the field at those critical moments next year.
Against an increasingly confident opponent, with a crowd that dared to believe, the young men in black had to find a way to cope.
"Look, it was the perfect game for us," said Hansen. "We have a lot of respect for Scotland and what we thought they would bring. We felt they were an up-and-coming side.
"For this tour we wanted to give all the young guys at least two opportunities. The USA was the first one and this was a big step up.
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"We couldn't have asked for a better game because they had to earn the right to win it. They had to stay mentally strong. They got put under a lot of pressure at times and they came through very well."
The result becomes the only judge of whether a team copes well with pressure. And the All Blacks got the result they were after on the back of a 10-minute period where they kept Scotland pinned in their own 22.
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Scotland will perhaps regret not hoofing it down the other end as the more they ran, the more the All Blacks came into the game. It was after a concerted period of better passing and better running lines that Jeremy Thrush was able to crash over and win the test.
Scotland asked tough questions and New Zealand, not elegantly or impressively, came up with the right answers. The manner, though, hardly matters. Scrappy is fine. Ugly is fine. Making mistakes was okay.
"Pressure does that to you," said Hansen. "It did the same to Scotland, too, as the longer the game went and the more they felt like they were going to win, mistakes starting creeping into their game too.
"Pressure is a funny thing for young athletes. You have got to learn to cope with it."
