DeBoer on We're Built For This

UW coach Kalen DeBoer tells his players they were built for a championship run.

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00:00 >> Several times this week I heard you say we're built for this.

00:03 Can you expand on that a little bit and what exactly?

00:06 >> Yeah, I think it's a combination of the things we've been through together.

00:12 The highs and knowing how to play in those big moments and

00:16 then the lows like a year ago.

00:19 And then just everything that we talked through and everything,

00:23 whether it comes from the coaches, but even more so right now being,

00:28 I would consider a player led team.

00:30 That's my goal is to help enable them to be that.

00:35 We give them the template, we give them the guidance, the organization,

00:41 a plan and then making it what it is by keeping themselves,

00:46 holding themselves and each other accountable.

00:49 And taking ownership and just making whatever, even that play,

00:53 that scheme, but this team theirs.

00:56 And we've been through it and you try to point those things out a year ago,

01:01 to where if we're ever in this spot again, this is what we do.

01:05 And so the continuity of coaches, the continuity of players,

01:09 there's just so many lessons we've learned together and things we've held on to.

01:14 And when these moments come, we take advantage of that knowledge and that trust.