Effect of a training program on the improvement of basketball players' decision making
Alarcón López, Francisco (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia)
Cárdenas Vélez, David (Universidad de Granada)
Miranda León, Maria Teresa (Universidad de Granada)
Ureña Ortín, Nuria (Universidad de Murcia)
Piñar López, Maria Isabel (Universidad de Granada)
Torre Ramos, Elisa (Universidad de Granada)

Date:	2009
Abstract:	The aim of this study was to analyse whether a tactical training program based on a constructivist model can improve decision making related to keeping control of the ball for a men's senior basketball team composed of ten players. The dependent variables were: player distribution around the ball, and achieving support on both sides of the ball at an effective passing distance. Data collection was made through observational analysis utilizing a previously validated tool. A pretest-posttest design without a control group was used. Results demonstrated an improvement in decision making after the posttest for both the number of support players near the player with the ball, as it increased from 85% in the pretest to 100% in the posttest, and the number of collective or team actions around the player with the ball (from 5% to 76. 5%) with highly significant differences. The primary conclusion is that a training program for teaching team tactics based on a constructivist model has a positive influence on players' capability to facilitate the pass to their teammates.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Tactics ; Teaching ; Constructivism ; Decision making
Published in:	Revista de psicología del deporte, Vol. 18, Núm. 3 (2009) , p. 403-407, ISSN 1988-5636

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