FEBA

Official Twitter account of the Folsom Elite Basketball Academy

[Jon Beck @CoachJonBeck]

The biggest lie in player development? Looking good in workouts ≠ getting better at basketball. If every rep has a script, every move has one answer, & every shot is uncontested… don’t be shocked when the script disappears & the game itself exposes what the workouts never did.

[FEBA @febahoops]

Former @febabasketball player, @J_mccain_24 is 🔥🔥🔥tonight! Let’s go!!!

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Every time you see a UConn team on the floor you will see skill work

Big part of Coach Hurley’s approach

[Scott Peterman @coachpeterman]

This is EXACTLY why the UConn Huskies men's basketball are so hard to guard.

It’s not just plays…

It’s:
• Constant off-ball screening
• Counters off the same actions
• Elite spacing + timing
• Multiple options every possession
Most coaches see the result.
Very few understand the structure behind it.
I broke down 40 of their best actions (with clips + diagrams) that you can plug into your system 👇

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Arizona's was Down 7 to Purdue at halftime of the Elite Eight. Their first Final Four in 25 years slipping away.

Coach Tommy Lloyd walks to the front of the locker room and says: "Guys, the coaching staff and I are going to leave right now. You guys figure this deal out."

There wasn't some huge speech. He walked out.

Every instinct in a coaches body says to give the movie style inspirational speech. Light a fire, demand more, sound like Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday...

Lloyd did the opposite. He left 5 minutes on the clock and sent a key message to the players: This is your team. I trust you to lead it.

The veteran players took charge. They'd been through the tournament losses before, helped with emotional regulation, and reiterated that they still had a shot.

Freshman Koa Peat said afterward: "They told us to keep going. Can't get too high or too low. Just stay even-keeled."

Arizona outscored Purdue 48-26 in the second half. They had zero turnovers and shot 51.6% from the field.
Second half: Arizona outscored Purdue One.

They put on a clinic.

When asked why he did it, Lloyd said after the game:

"The most powerful thing in a team sport is a player-led program. The coach, you have to help them navigate it, but when you can get the players to own these moments, you are just so much better."

He said he'd done it four or five times this year and it worked every time.

There's a mountain of science behind Lloyd's approach

In 2003, researchers Mageau and Vallerand found autonomy-supportive coaching, giving athletes choice, acknowledging their perspective, and avoiding overt control, consistently produced more motivated, more resilient athletes.

Controlling coaching did the reverse: higher burnout and lower resilience.

This is at the heart of one of the most theories in psychology, Self-Determination Theory

When people feel autonomy, competence, and relatedness, you get the highest quality motivation.

When a coach trusts his team to figure it out and right the ship, he's handing them all three at once. It's the ultimate signal of trust when his team needed it the most.

Lloyd built a culture where the players internalized the stuff that matters.

A 2025 meta-analysis by Clare and colleagues looked at 50 studies and over 17,000 athletes.

They found that team captains had nearly twice the effect on performance as coaches did.

Coaches help set the culture and expectations. They guide good leaders, but the players look to who else is in the arena with them.

We need peer pressure in the positive direction.

Lloyd understood this. Too often, as coaches we think we need to "do something." That instinct pushes us to over control, to grip the wheel harder.

When so often, what we need to do is trust that we've guided them the best we can, and show them the trust they deserve.

Steve Kerr once did something similar with the Warriors, telling his team that he was sitting out and they were coaching the team for a game.

Build the culture. Coach the team up, giving them the skills and ability.

And then sometimes, you've just got to step back, tell them you believe in them, that it's there team.

That ownership and self-belief is the fuel of the purest motivation.

Sometimes, when we're struggling, we don't need all the answers. We just need to hear that we've already got the inside of us. And to give us that belief to go get it done...together.

-Steve

Research:
Mageau & Vallerand (2003)
"The coach–athlete relationship: a motivational model." Journal of Sports Sciences, 21(11), 883-904.

-Clare, Hardy, Roberts, Tod, & Benson (2025)
"Do Leaders Actually Influence Sports Performance? An Integrated Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses." Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 47(4), 205-222.

[James Light @JamesALight]

UCONN HC Dan Hurley - Building a System/Identity

- "Our system is how hard we play. How hard we get after people every single possession at both ends of the court & on the backboard."

- "The number one thing you got to understand if you want to have a program that can sustainably be successful and have a chance to win every single night... It's hard to coach that way because it's fu**ing exhausting. To coach every single possession, every single day and when the losing team runs the line because every single drill we do there is a winner & a loser, when they get this close and miss that line, you better be there to call them out and make the whole team now run with them."

- "If you want to start the game 6-0, like I start most games just because my team is ready to go because we go so hard every day."

[FEBA @febahoops]

FEBA Alum @AndrejSto2 off TO THE FINAL FOUR!

[Jamy Bechler @CoachBechler]

𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... NOBODY reminds anyone of the standards

𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... COACHES remind team of the standards

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... CAPTAINS remind team of the standards

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 ... EVERYONE reminds each other of the standards

[FEBA @febahoops]

@Coach_DeMarco Defense BULLDOG STYLE!!! @folsomhshoops

[Laura Powell @LauraPowellEsq]

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Not to be confused with Trans Day of Visibility, which is in March.

Or Trans Day of Action, in June.

Yesterday was the last day of Transgender Awareness Week.

Trans Parent Day was earlier this month.

The California Legislature has declared August to be Trans History Month.

Pronouns Day is in October.

Also in October is Genderfluid Visibility Week.

Non-Binary People's Day and Non-Binary Awareness Week are in July.

October is designated as LGBTQ History Month (which was initially “Lesbian and Gay History Month.”)

And of course, LGBTQ Pride Month (formerly “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month”) is in June.

I am sure this is not an exhaustive list of days we are supposed to focus on people who reject the reality of biological sex.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Let’s not forget that @POTUS Biden was the Democratic presidential candidate 63 days ago.

We were told by the administration and the media that Biden was in perfect health and that videos of him exhibiting serious deterioration were ‘right wing propaganda.’

Then, threatened with the 25th amendment, on July 21st, he stepped aside to be replaced by @KamalaHarris who was complicit in the lie. She knew, and she told the American people otherwise. Her reward for keeping quiet was to become the presidential candidate without a primary or other transparent process for her selection.

The Biden lie is perhaps the greatest lie ever told to the American people by our government. And this lie was also told to us repeatedly with a bold face by the current Democratic nominee for president.

Now all of a sudden, the former most left-leaning Senator (proudly left of Bernie) and now the most left-wing politician in the country, over the last two months has become a gun-toting, shoot-the-intruder, fracking-supporting, border-wall-building candidate who began her career at @McDonalds. She almost sounds like a Republican candidate for president.

How can anyone trust anything she says?

Even if you carefully watch her speak or read the transcripts of the four interviews and one debate she has done, it is nearly impossible to understand what she is saying. She has yet to answer a direct question about the economy, the border, or foreign policy.

In response to questions about specific policies, she simply repeats the same scripted stories about being a prosecutor, growing up middle class, and/or other non-sequiturs, and neither the media nor the moderators challenge these insipid, unresponsive answers.

I voted for @JoeBiden because after @realDonaldTrump’s first term, I believed the country would benefit by a more centrist candidate. Biden promised to bring the country together. And as Biden was a supposed ‘one-term’ president, we were misled into believing he wouldn’t be beholden to the progressive wing of the party and could implement a moderate political agenda.

I and the American people were misled. I apologize for casting my vote for Biden. It was a big mistake.

VP Harris’s entire candidacy relies on support from an undisclosed cabal of party leaders who selected her in a private process. She didn’t get one vote in a primary. As such, she is perhaps the most beholden-to-the party candidate in history.

Her campaign is a blatant attempt to say what she needs to say in order to get elected. She is keeping her appearances unprecedentedly limited compared to any other candidate in history so that she has less surface area to be understood for who she really is and what she actually believes.

She has done four interviews and @Tim_Walz four during the last 63 days compared to 70 for Trump and @JDVance.

[See: https://t.co/jBlD23GBCO]

Ask yourself, what previous presidential candidate in history has run a campaign doing everything he or she could to avoid the media? You won’t find one. Then ask yourself, why?

VP Harris’ evasiveness is only possible here because of a complicit media which should be screaming from the rooftops about her refusal to be interviewed, but instead repeatedly excuse and praise her and her campaign.

In the nearly four years of the Biden/Harris administration, the world is up in flames with a hot war in Europe with approaching one million dead, and a growing conflagration in the Middle East. Our large and small cities are overrun with unvetted migrants with the associated impact on crime, budgets, and services, and lower income Americans cannot afford a proper meal. Our universities have become hotbeds of hate. Free speech is being squelched except for @X, one of the first likely targets, along with its proprietor @elonmusk, of a future Harris administration. Our government spending and waste are totally out of control and I could go on and on.

I strongly encourage you to vote accordingly.

[FEBA @febahoops]

FEBA Spring tryouts are coming, March 14-17! We are pumped up to return to the Xtreme Hoops South Lake Tahoe Memorial Day tourney! @KimcheeeQueeen @brycewaynemills @coachmikewall @SacBee_JoeD @jordan_ford_ @folsomhshoops @HardwoodPalace @sacareasports

[Coach Mac 🏀 @BballCoachMac]

"Not talking on the floor is the least recognized form of selfishness but maybe the most dangerous to your team having success"

- Tom Crean

[Folsom Cordova USD @FolsomCordova]

The firm Rainforth Grau has designed some of the most iconic school buildings in Folsom Cordova and across the region. When the firm needed artwork for its new office in downtown Sacramento, they looked to @Folsom_High’s teacher Jeff Carter's amazing, award-winning students!

[Daniel Makepeace @PureIntensityBB]

GREAT defenders:
🏀Never take a play off
🏀Have a 'shut down' mentality
🏀Never allow middle
🏀Always between man & rim
🏀Don't commit dumb fouls
🏀Bump cutters
🏀Help & help the helper
🏀Work until possession is over

[Clint Parks @ClintParks05]

Point guards dribbling their teammates out of OPEN SHOTS then throwing it to them when they aren't open so they can ask for ball right back to "run something" I'm seeing this ALOT and it's disturbing.

[Eric Musselman @EricPMusselman]

Great players have a high "care factor". They care about guarding their man. They care about helping their teammates. They care about doing what they are asked to do.

[Coach Mac 🏀 @BballCoachMac]

A player's willingness to take a charge is directly correlated to his investment in the team.

[Daniel Makepeace @PureIntensityBB]

Toughness isn't ignoring your coach, showing up when you want or working when you feel like it. Its bringing what it takes to WIN on a daily basis.

[Ganon Baker @GanonBaker]

Coaches, in workouts we have to get these players OUT of their COMFORT ZONE if the goal is to learn and master a new skill level. Failure is success, if they adjust learn and improve . Loose the ball,miss the shot, fall down ,mess up,feel/embrace pain. Thats what the journey IS!