Differences in physiological, physical, and technical demands of small-sided basketball games related to the number of players, court size, and work-to-rest ratios are not well characterised. A ...controlled trial was conducted to compare the influence of number of players (2v2/4v4), court size (half/full court) and work-to-rest ratios (4x2.5 min/2x5 min) on the demands of small-sided games. Sixteen elite male and female junior players (aged 15-19 years) completed eight variations of a small-sided game in randomised order over a six-week period. Heart rate responses and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) were measured to assess the physiological load. Movement patterns and technical elements were assessed by video analysis. There were ∼60% more technical elements in 2v2 and ∼20% more in half court games. Heart rate (86 ± 4% & 83 ± 5% of maximum; mean ± SD) and RPE (8 ± 2 & 6 ± 2; scale 1-10) were moderately higher in 2v2 than 4v4 small-sided games, respectively. The 2v2 format elicited substantially more sprints (36 ±12%; mean ±90% confidence limits) and high intensity shuffling (75 ±17%) than 4v4. Full court games required substantially more jogging (9 ±6%) compared to half court games. Fewer players in small-sided basketball games substantially increases the technical, physiological and physical demands.
Background:
Athletes who specialize in their sport at an early age may be at risk for burnout, overuse injury, and reduced attainment of elite status. Timing of sport specialization has not been ...studied in elite basketball athletes.
Hypothesis:
National Basketball Association (NBA) players who played multiple sports during adolescence would be less likely to experience injury and would have higher participation rates in terms of games played and career length compared with single-sport athletes.
Study Design:
Descriptive epidemiology study.
Methods:
First-round draft picks from 2008 to 2015 in the NBA were included in the study. From publically available records from the internet, the following data were collected for each athlete: participation in high school sports, major injuries sustained in the NBA, percentage of games played in the NBA, and whether the athlete was still active in the NBA. Athletes who participated in sports in addition to basketball during high school were defined as multisport athletes and were compared with athletes who participated only in basketball in high school.
Results:
Two hundred thirty-seven athletes were included in the study, of which 36 (15%) were multisport athletes and 201 (85%) were single-sport athletes in high school. The multisport cohort played in a statistically significantly greater percentage of total games (78.4% vs 72.8%; P < .001). Participants in the multisport cohort were less likely to sustain a major injury during their career (25% vs 43%, P = .03). Finally, a greater percentage of the multisport athletes were active in the league at time of data acquisition, indicating increased longevity in the NBA (94% vs 81.1%; P = .03).
Conclusion:
While a minority of professional basketball athletes participated in multiple sports in high school, those who were multisport athletes participated in more games, experienced fewer major injuries, and had longer careers than those who participated in a single sport. Further research is needed to determine the reasons behind these differences.
El presente trabajo analiza la construcción de las secuencias ofensivas que acaban en lanzamiento de uno de los mejores equipos españoles de baloncesto en categoría infantil (Real Madrid). A ...partir de los datos obtenidos mediante el instrumento de observación SOBL-2, elaborado ad hoc por Fernández, Camerino, Anguera y Jonsson (2009), se ha realizado un análisis estadístico descriptivo e inferencial –mediante el programa SPSS, versión 19.0– y otro en busca de patrones temporales –mediante el software Theme, versión 5.0–, que nos han permitido caracterizar la construcción de las secuencias ofensivas –eficaces e ineficaces– que acaban en lanzamiento. Además, la comparación de estas secuencias con las propias del baloncesto de élite ha evidenciado las dificultades y/o limitaciones que posee el jugador de baloncesto de esta edad bajo las actuales premisas de juego correspondientes a la categoría infantil. Los resultados sugieren la conveniencia de adaptar el juego de baloncesto en categoría infantil a partir de la manifiesta dificultad que encuentran los jugadores para mostrarse competentes en lanzamientos exteriores.
El propósito último de este trabajo pretende contribuir a la adaptación del deporte (el baloncesto) al niño. A la edad de 12-13 años, el niño pasa de jugar en la categoría alevín bajo las premisas de ...minibasket a practicar, en la categoría infantil, el baloncesto con las mismas características -terreno, canasta y balón- con que lo hacen en la liga profesional ACB las grandes figuras del baloncesto español. El artículo, a partir del estudio del patrón técnico de lanzamiento de tiro libre -gesto técnico clave y representativo-, analiza la conveniencia de la actual propuesta reglamentaria en términos de adaptación/desadaptación a través de un análisis estadístico descriptivo e inferencial y la detección de patrones temporales. El artículo concluye que la modalidad de minibasket es una propuesta convenientemente adaptada mientras que, el paso a la modalidad infantil, conlleva una ruptura desadaptativa de los patrones técnicos automatizados por el jugador en la categoría alevín y un alejamiento del tiro libre técnicamente correcto.
We analyse and compare NBA and Euroleague basketball through box-score statistics in the period from 2000 to 2017. Overall, the quantitative differences between the NBA and Euroleague have decreased ...and are still decreasing. Differences are even smaller after we adjust for game length and when playoff NBA basketball is considered instead of regular season basketball. The differences in factors that contribute to success are also very small-(Oliver's) four factors derived from box-score statistics explain most of the variability in team success even if the coefficients are determined for both competitions simultaneously instead of each competition separately. The largest difference is game pace-in the NBA there are more possessions per game. The number of blocks, the defensive rebounding rate and the number of free throws per foul committed are also higher in the NBA, while the number of fouls committed is lower. Most of the differences that persist can be reasonably explained by the contrasts between the better athleticism of NBA players and more emphasis on tactical aspects of basketball in the Euroleague.
Dream Shot Birnbaum, Josh; Buchi, Matthew E
10/2017
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In 2008, the men's wheelchair basketball team at the University of Illinois set out to achieve their sport's pinnacle: a college national championship. That lofty goal represented another stage of a ...journey begun in 1948 when Tim Nugent established the Gizz Kids wheelchair squad. Embedded with the team, Josh Birnbaum took photos that captured the life experiences of people in the Illinois wheelchair basketball program from 2005 through the 2008 championship season. Dream Shot follows the unique lives of the players and coaches on the court and the road, and in quiet moments at home and the classroom. Along the way, Birnbaum provides the definitive story of the 2008 team and the challenges it overcame to capture one of Illinois's record fifteen men's titles. Featuring more than 100 color photographs, Dream Shot memorializes a legendary team alongside the story of the university's dedication to the progress of disability rights.
South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To ...combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity.Desi Hoop Dreamsfocuses on South Asian-only basketball leagues common in most major U.S. and Canadian cities, to show that basketball, for these South Asian American players is not simply a whimsical hobby, but a means to navigate and express their identities in 21st century America.
The participation of young men in basketball is one platform among many for performing South Asian American identity. South Asian-only leagues and tournaments become spaces in which to negotiate the relationships between masculinity, race, and nation. When faced with stereotypes that portray them as effeminate, players perform sporting feats on the court to represent themselves as athletic. And though they draw on black cultural styles, they carefully set themselves off from African American players, who are deemed "too aggressive." Accordingly, the same categories of their own marginalization-masculinity, race, class, and sexuality-are those through which South Asian American men exclude women, queer masculinities, and working-class masculinities, along with other racialized masculinities, in their effort to lay claim to cultural citizenship.
One of the first works on masculinity formation and sport participation in South Asian American communities,Desi Hoop Dreamsfocuses on an American popular sport to analyze the dilemma of belonging within South Asian America in particular and in the U.S. in general.
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