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Friday Press Clippings:
Decision-making of Spanish Female Basketball Team Players
While They are Competing

From Revista de Psicología del Deporte
By Ana Concepción Jiménez Sánchez, Alberto Lorenzo Calvo,
Pedro Sáenz-López Buñuel & Sergio José Ibáñez Godoy
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"... Those sports requiring cooperation and opposition clearly reflect the constant decision-making by each and every player who takes part in each phase of the game.

The whole development of the sports competition gives rise to situations where the responses, the motor actions that are performed, are generated after a mental process involving a perceptive and decisive capacity. “Decision” means to choose, consciously, from different possible actions. ..."

"... As far as the interview is concerned, we can see that every female basketball player has a high level of experience and success. Most of them think that they have taken good training in terms of decision-making and that their coaches have helped them, although some declare this is an innate ability.

Players say they feel quite confident when they must resolve 1x1 situations, as well as they state it is necessary to ‘read’ the defense and, consequently, decide what to do. Outside players, who also make other moves to throw, are important in these situations.

Centers prefer beginning a 1x1 attack with their back to the basket. As for picks, they think their decisive capacity must be improved. All of them state it is essential to ..."

"... At the moment of setting a pick for someone during a match, the fact that playmakers and forwards have played for a longer time than centers and that they have shown a wider variety of actions ... .

As regards the way players face the picks and their subsequent moves, these also match up with conclusions by Domínguez and Refoyo (2008) and Zamora, Hidalgo, Cárdenas and Ocaña (2007). As for the kind of defense in a pick situation, the defensive change stands out: it shows a higher frequency than other researches, such as those by Domínguez and Refoyo (2008) and Remmert (2003). ..."

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