Nobody teaches you how to be the parent of a basketball player.
I help the parents of elite youth basketball players make the right call for their teenager.
You're making decisions every week that nobody trained you for. Which program. When to push. What to say on the ride home after a bad game.
I built a room where you're not doing it alone.
Count the people coaching you.
Your teenager has a coach. Probably three. A skills trainer. Someone for strength. A club coach and a school coach who don't always agree.
Now count the people coaching you. Zero.
You make every decision that actually matters. Which club. When to push and when to back off. What to say in the car. What to say when they don't make the team.
Nobody taught you any of it. You're doing it live, in front of the person who matters most.
Why listen to me
I'm Trey Mourning. I captained Georgetown, where I was a four-time Big East Academic All-American and a double alumnus. I went to an NBA training camp with the Houston Rockets, played pro in the G League, Russia and New Zealand, and served as a Vice President of the G League Players Union. I was also a chaplain for the Miami Heat, which is where the counseling and teaching side of this work comes from.
In my last professional season I went from averaging 5 points and 4 rebounds to 20 and 9, at the point where most people have already decided who you are.
I grew up watching my dad, Alonzo Mourning, play 16 seasons in the NBA and put together a Hall of Fame career.
Over the last two years I've worked with more than fifty families through Coach Comma. The teenager was almost never the hard part. The parent was the one making calls nobody trained them for.
What actually changes
- You stop guessing on the decisions that actually matter. Every other week on Zoom, you bring the real situation from your house and we work it out loud. Which club. Whether to say something to the coach. Whether tonight is a push night or a leave-it-alone night. Every call is recorded, so one you can't make costs you nothing.
- Once a month, you and your teenager sit in the same room. The Family Huddle is included. Practice, workouts, meetings with the coach — almost all of their development happens with your teenager in one room and you in another. This is the one place you're both in the same one, with me guiding the conversation. It isn't a film session and it isn't a training session. It's the conversation the two of you keep putting off.
- You stop feeling like the only one. The best thing I get to hear from a parent is this: it's not just me. That's what the room does — other parents in the same week you're having.
- You get the words for the conversation you've been avoiding. Thirteen lessons you go through at your own pace, made for you instead of your teenager. The car ride home. Reading your own reaction before you open your mouth. The A–B Decision Matrix. When to push and when to leave it alone.
- You stop sitting on a question for six days. Post any day. I answer within 48 hours during the week, and often a parent who's already been through it gets there first.
- You get straight answers about basketball, not general parenting advice. Club versus school. Playing time. Whether a circuit team is worth the travel and the money. When to leave a program and when to stay and earn it.
Where this came from
Two years ago I started coaching basketball families one at a time. The questions were almost never about basketball itself. They were about what to say, when to push, and whether to speak to the coach. Parents kept telling me they had nowhere to ask any of it. So I built the room.
Questions
Do I have to be on the calls?
Yes. That's the whole point, and I want you on as many as you can make.
Parents get on from the car, from work, from the golf course, because they want to hear the answer to somebody else's question. Every call is recorded, so nothing is lost. The recording is the backup, not the plan.
Is my teenager in this?
Once a month, yes. The Family Huddle is the one you bring them to, and I guide the conversation while you're both there.
The rest is yours. The every-other-week call is the parent room, where you can say the thing you wouldn't say in front of them.
In two years no teenager has ever paid me to work with them. It's always been a parent who wanted it badly for their player.
Can I cancel?
Any time, from your own account, without emailing me or getting on a call about it.
It's a monthly subscription, same as Spotify. No minimum term and nobody trying to talk you out of it.
The investment
All of it is included at this price: the parent call every other week on Zoom, the monthly Family Huddle with your teenager, the course, and daily access to me between calls. There is nothing else to buy.
Take your seatNo application and no call to book. No contract and no minimum term. You cancel from your own account, the same way you cancel Spotify.
Take your seat.
A week from now there's another decision waiting on you. You can make it alone in the driveway, or you can make it with a room of parents who've already made it.
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