Kalen DeBoer on Banks or Jackson

UW coach Kalen DeBoer discusses how he rewards a player vs. not giving up on another.

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00:00 you balance the wanting to reward somebody like Devon Banks who had a

00:03 really good game with also wanting to give Elijah Jackson the opportunity to

00:08 play his way into the season and develop a rhythm and all those sorts of things?

00:12 We're gonna need them all. It's more and more reps. We're

00:18 just trying to get them and build in more confidence. I know I thought

00:22 Devon, I don't know if he stole the show, but he got

00:27 those pass breakups and played really well. That's obviously

00:31 something we're excited about. But again, there's a lot of things Elijah did

00:35 really well too. There's things we could have done to help him out a little

00:38 bit better where it looks maybe a little bit rough on his end on a player too, but

00:43 he's counting on someone in another spot to help him too. It isn't

00:48 just on one person, but Elijah I think has come so far.

00:54 He went out there and played hard and played aggressive, confident.

00:58 He's got one game under his belt now and I think that's a good

01:03 example of those guys week one to week two, gaining confidence,

01:08 growing, but we're gonna need that whole unit. Thaddeus got

01:12 out there, did some things as well. Jay Green, so on top of

01:18 I thought Jabbar just playing a solid all-around game. We expected that and

01:22 his experience I think showed up. He was right where he needed to be.

01:28 Felt very comfortable with him. It looked like he was very

01:31 comfortable out there just understanding how to play our defense.