Mike Thorne

UNCC & Illinois Fighting Illini Alumni 🏀 🎓. Retired European pro athlete. Elite skill developer with basketball. Jesus is Lord 🙏🏾. Personal Trainer for all

[#CoachHova 🏀 @realbucketscout]

Film exposes everything. It catches the lazy closeout, the missed rotation, and the poor effort. Don't play for the camera, play for the film.

[Nondi @Kei_Nondi]

If you're afraid to be seen hustling, selling, or starting from zero. Get comfortable staying broke. Pride has kept more people poor than failure ever will.

[Tyler Lewis @ty1ewis]

We live in a society where some parents are more concerned about another child’s choices than what’s going on with their own. 🤷‍♂️

[Del Current @DelCurrent]

Weak competition gives false hope.

[Darryl Anthony-Dillard Valdez Jr @DVSP87]

Athletes: skill work 3, 5, 7 days a week means nothing if you’re not getting bigger, faster, stronger, and more explosive in the offseason.

You can create separation with technique, but if the dude across from you is stronger and faster, he can erase your mistake��and sometimes erase your advantage.

Skill gets you open. Athleticism keeps you open. Train both.

[Dennis Marshall @mar5hallhoops]

Some of us can meet you one time and never see you dribble a ball and know what chance you have to play basketball at the collegiate or pro level. It's not hard.

[Shakur Stevenson @ShakurStevenson]

Comparison is the thief of joy

[Dennis Marshall @mar5hallhoops]

If it’s not a game, everyone has an excuse why they can’t make it.

[Dennis Marshall @mar5hallhoops]

I think part of players struggling is “cool” has been integrated way too much. We announce that we are reclassing, what middle school we going to, making different color shoes, etc. Everything is attention seeking and less about how much better have I gotten and will still get.

[Pasha Bains @DRIVEBasketball]

Parents have left great situations so their kid can “bring up the ball.” Then they join a weaker team, dominate the ball, and realize it didn’t actually make them a better player. Bringing the ball up isn’t the goal. Becoming a complete basketball player is.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Weird how we don’t see this kind of stuff all day everyday, isn’t it? Good on Stephen A Smith for taking responsibility for his horrible actions and making it right:

[Tom Parks @CoachTomParks]

Parents: If you’re kid loves basketball, here’s two things that I STRONGLY recommend:

1) If you don’t let your kids dribble in house, buy them a silent basketball.

2) Have them dribble anytime y’all are walking anywhere.

3) Always have a basketball on hand.

[Andrew K @CoachKurzawski]

A lot of the basketball training you see for kids heading into their freshman year of college simply doesn’t translate to the college game. Freshmen need to be elite at the basics: catch-and-shoot, scoring in two dribbles or less, defending at a high level, and being physically and mentally prepared to compete every possession. That’s what earns minutes.

[Grayson Pierce @GraysonPierce4]

John Calipari during Arkansas’ practice:

“If you’re not a dog on this team, you won’t play. I feel bad for you; no one got promised anything. I’m playing the dogs, because if I put a bunch of dogs out there, we’re not losing.”

(🎥 @RazorbackMBB) | #WPS

[252Mixtapes @252Mixtapes]

16U Boys
GOLD CHAMPIONSHIP

MCP 65
Co-MVPs: JaVon Motta 19
Jeremiah Harper 19

Elite One Ballers 2028 50

#252SummerFinale #2026

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Jonathan Kuminga’s GAME SPEED workout

This is how hard your workouts should be

No wasted movements

Not dribbling 700 times

Working on moves and shots he gets in games

(Via @TheWarriorsTalk 🎥)

[Jeremiah Harper @JayHarper09]

After a great conversation, I am blessed and grateful to announce that i’ve received my first D1 offer from the University of San Francisco. Thank you to the coaches for this opportunity and to everyone who has supported me along the way! #divinetiming #tgbtg

[Lethal Shooter @LethalShooter__]

When you see me with what I deserve. Just know I was patient.✅