Leeland Carter

PK Yonge DRS Basketball
@Tre_Mann_elite 17s

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Stephen Gonzalez, Asst AD for Mental Performance, talking to Dartmouth basketball about the power of emotional regulation:

"Get out of the bucket!"

"People are going to go in the bucket. You will too, but you choose to stay there."
(@StevePGonzalez)

[NBA @NBA]

NO-LOOK. CROSSCOURT. BEHIND-THE-BACK DIME.

ARE YOU SERIOUS, JOKER 🤯

[Steve Collins @TeachHoopsBBall]

The 3 people that can never have a bad day if you want to be a great team

1) Head Coach
2) Point Guard
3) Best Player

[Reid Ouse @reidouse]

John Calipari once talked about tracking hockey assists - the last two passes before the bucket.

He said it wasn't necessarily about who had the most hockey assists, but who had the fewest.

That's where the ball was sticking.

[Baffa @Mal_Baffa]

There's a small window in life when your parents are healthy, your children are little, and everyone is happy and together. It feels like it will last forever, it won’t. Cherish every moment of it.

[Matt Kramer @coachk6463]

Play Calling System

Each set play has a main counter and a backdoor counter

“Chest” = Parent Action
“Chest-Again” = Counter Action
“Chest-Run It” = Backdoor Counter

Become impossible to scout!

[Brandon Jenkins @BJenkins247]

We wrap up our @PRO16League Finals coverage by highlighting this past weekend’s best 17U matchups and top performers.

No. 54 national recruit Aaron Britt Jr. headlines our recap after leading Tre Mann Elite to the 17U title.

𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 https://t.co/7tQkcaOhCq

[PRO16/NXTPRO League @PRO16League]

Your 17U PRO16 Finals MVP @aaronbrittjr3 🏆

[PRO16/NXTPRO League @PRO16League]

IT’S A PARTY IN BRYAN 🏆

@TreMannElite

[PRO16/NXTPRO League @PRO16League]

17U Champs🔥🔥🔥

@TreMannElite

[PRO16/NXTPRO League @PRO16League]

Congratulations to @TreMannElite on winning the 2026 PRO16 17U Championship! 🏆

[Tommy Carroll @TommyCarroll23]

2027 6’7” wing Jomar Bernard showed off his ability to stretch defenses with quality perimeter shooting ability. Buried several threes in a big win to help Tre Mann Elite advance to the final four. Good positional size and length give him defensive versatility. Capable of switching and guarding multiple positions.

@PRO16League
@Jomar_Bernard9
@TreMannElite
@mosesk225

[Jack Riley @JackRiley323]

Aaron Britt Jr calls game in overtime for Tre Mann Elite PRO16 17U to advance to the final 8 in the PRO16 finals. He had a great inside out scoring game paired with a plethora of assists.

@PRO16League
@TreMannElite
@aaronbrittjr3

[Tommy Carroll @TommyCarroll23]

2027 7’0” C Akol Nyok shined for Tre Mann Elite in an impressive win over Cooz Elite. Big time lob threat off ball screens and from the dunker spot. Threw down five dunks from lobs. Defensively, he protected the rim altering shots. His ability to defend, rebound, and finish above the rim make him an attractive prospect. Exceptional size and length with decent athleticism.

@PRO16League
@Akolnyok34
@TreMannElite
@mosesk225
@GradyMajors

[Jack Riley @JackRiley323]

Wing Jomar Bernard of Tre Mann Elite PRO16 17U is a skilled 3 and D wing with athleticism and a high motor. My stock has risen a ton on him this weekend. His ability to get open off ball and knock down open shots is high level, along with a nice tough shot making ability in the mid range.

@PRO16League
@TreMannElite
@Jomar_Bernard9

[Zark @ZarkTweets]

Derrick Rose working on his game during his rookie year.

[z2_dawson @ZackDawson305]

Puma Pro16 Tulsa, Ok Highlights
#puma #pro16league

[Mike Jagacki @Mike_Jagacki]

The most underrated skill in basketball isn't shooting. It isn't ball handling. Dare I say, it isn't even defense.

It's learning.

One finding from psychology comes from the work of cognitive psychologist Michelene Chi. When researchers compared experts and novices, they found that experts didn't just know more information. They organized information differently.

That might sound like a small distinction, but I think it's incredibly important.

This is the reason why a chess grandmaster can glance at a board and recall far more information than a novice. At first glance, it sounds like a memory test. But it wasn't really a memory test.

The masters weren't remembering more. They were seeing more.

They had spent thousands of hours learning which patterns mattered, which pieces were connected, which positions were dangerous, and which ones weren't. The board wasn't a collection of individual pieces anymore. It was information organized into meaningful chunks.

How does this relate to basketball?

Well, a freshman sits through a scouting report and hears ten separate pieces of information. A veteran sits through the same scouting report and hears ten pieces that fit into an existing framework.

It's easy to look at that and assume the veteran just has a higher basketball IQ.

Maybe.

But the veteran immediately connects those ideas to things we do and things he's already seen. The information has somewhere to go. A different way to organize it. And because of that, he can learn it faster.

But it didn't start that way for him and that's the part I think coaches often overlook.

But by March, what separates teams isn't always talent, athleticism, skills, technique, etc.

It's how quickly they can learn. How quickly can your team absorb a scout with one day prep in a tournament game? How quickly can they adjust in a big game out of a timeout?

The best teams I've been around were the teams that could take information from a film session at 12 PM and apply it by 7 PM.

Which has lead me to believe every program should have a learning roadmap alongside its offensive and defensive roadmaps.

Because if learning is a skill, then maybe we should be training it the same way we train shooting, passing, and defense.