What’s up everybody — I hope your days have been full of growth, learning, and steady progress toward your goals.

Personally, I’m feeling good about the strides I’ve been making in my rehab. Each workout has felt a little better, and even though I’m mostly limited to upper-body training right now, it feels great to be back in the gym and working on my body.

I’ve got one week left here in Lithuania before heading back to the States so we can be around family for the birth of our son. With that big transition coming up, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the lessons I’ve learned during my 2.5–3 months here.

I think many of them will resonate with you and shine some light on your own journey.

Let’s get into it.

Check Out the Recent Lithuania Vlogs 🔥

For the last two weeks, I’ve really tried to dive into the experience of living abroad. With less basketball in my life right now, these vlogs naturally have a lot less basketball in them. If you’re curious about what it’s like for an American living in Europe — especially Lithuania — these vlogs are perfect for you.

Watch them below:

What Did I Learn While in Lithuania?

These three months went nothing like I expected.

I came into the season thinking this would be my breakout year, the one that launched me onto the bigger European stage. Instead, an injury completely derailed that plan, and now I’m facing a long, difficult rehab. But even with things falling apart externally, I found a lot of internal growth. Here are the three biggest lessons:

1. The answer isn’t always to work harder.

Hard work has limits. There’s only so much “more” we can do physically. At some point, the real work becomes finding better, more efficient ways to grow.

My knee forced that lesson on me. I literally couldn’t go shoot more, lift more, or train more. I had to shift from “doing more” to “doing what actually matters.” The most impactful work wasn’t physical. It was reflecting, regulating my emotions, and figuring out my next steps with clarity instead of panic.

There were days I was frustrated because the things that used to be my solutions, getting shots up, hitting the weight room, weren’t options. My mindset had to evolve. I had to look for the work that would move the needle right now, not the work that used to.

2. Basketball is something I do, not who I am.

With basketball taken away from me for the foreseeable future, I had to face a tough question:

“Who am I if basketball is over?”

Even though I never wanted to admit it, I had tied a huge part of my identity to being a basketball player. That’s normal when you invest years of your life into something, but it’s also dangerous.

This injury forced me to peel that identity off. At first, it made me feel like a failure, like I was stupid for putting so much energy into something that could disappear in one moment. But as I worked through that fear, I realized something important:

I love basketball, as a job, a hobby, and a teacher. That love is part of who I am.
But the act of playing basketball is just an activity.
It doesn’t determine my worth.

How I show up for myself and for others that defines who I am. That’s where my value comes from. And ironically, I believe that pursuing the best version of myself holistically will make me the best player I can be in the long run. Start with the whole person, and the basketball self will follow.

3. Keep the wheel moving.

In tough moments, even small tasks can feel overwhelming. It’s easy to freeze and to shut down completely. But that’s the one thing you can’t let happen.

You can slow down, but you can’t stop.

It’s always easier to keep a car rolling slowly than to get it going again from a dead stop. After surgery, everything in my life slowed to almost nothing, basketball, Atypical, even my daily routine. But I fought to keep some momentum:

• daily journaling

• crutching my way to a coffee shop

• creating my weekly YouTube video even when it felt impossible

I refused to let the situation bring me to a complete halt. My output is lower right now, sure, but the effort it takes to do what I can is everything I’ve got. And that counts. A lot. The pace will pick up again, and I’ll be grateful I didn’t stop completely.

In summary

These past three months were full of uncertainty and setbacks. On the surface, it probably looked like a failure or a disaster. But that’s the outside perspective.

Inside, I still get to choose my mindset.
I get to decide how I interpret what’s happening.
And I choose growth. I choose opportunity.

That’s all these months have been: opportunities to expand into something greater.

Upcoming Atypical

Atypical Athletics Collection

Production for the Atypical Athletics Collection is officially underway.

We’re currently in phase two of securing an EU 3PL. They likely won’t be able to handle this first drop, which means EU delivery times will still be rough—so thank you in advance for your patience.

All the creative elements are done: sticker designs, neck labels, hang tags, packaging, and personalized notes. Every detail was obsessed over for this drop.

This will be our best product line yet—and it’s not even close. I hope you’re excited, because I definitely am.

Atypical Intentions Podcast

We filmed our very first (very rough) pilot this past week. We talked about what it takes to “get in the game.” The banter was strong, the insight was stronger—honestly a great first rep… but one that will never see the light of day 😂

More to come soon.

Atypical Community

A quick recap of what the Atypical Community will include:

• 24/7 access to me

• Bi-weekly group calls

• Community film-study breakdowns

• Exclusive weekly workouts

• Live access to the Atypical Intentions Podcast

This week we’ve been refining the structure: page layouts, navigation, and my daily/weekly deliverables. The goal is simple: to make this the most valuable space possible for learning, growing, and connecting with other like-minded athletes.

We want every member to feel like this is the place to grow, develop, and level up.

Final Thoughts

Life rarely goes exactly as we expect.

Our real superpower is the ability to choose our perspective in any situation.

No matter what happens, we can always choose growth. We can always choose to learn. When we adopt the mindset that life happens for us, not to us, everything shifts.

Accept this, live this, and you’ll be genuinely Atypical among your peers.

Love you guys,

Trey