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Friday Press Clippings:
Effects of consecutive basketball games on the game-related statistics
that discriminate winner and losing teams

From The Free Library
By Sergio Jose Ibañez et al.
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"... Performance analysis in ball team sports such as basketball is a fundamental tool for coaches, allowing them to have valid and reliable information concerning their team and opponents.

Generally, coaches and researchers use this information to identify the most valuable players and the importance of certain specific roles, to assess the impact of rule changes, to investigate the home advantage or to evaluate the participation in the game by starting and reserve players, with the goal of determining how each player contributes to team performance. ..."

"... The players and the teams' performances can decrease after several consecutive games. For example, ...... decreases in several physical capacities (speed, agility, and jump power) during 3-day tournaments. This may be due to accumulated fatigue from successive games, which affects decisionmaking and skill execution.

This way, ...... they highlighted the importance of using adequate conditioning and recovery training programs. In fact, monitoring fatigue is important, particularly in younger players who always want to perform optimally in all the stages of the game, which may have the consequence of an excessive physical exertion after various consecutive games. ..."

"... The descriptive results and univariate differences from both seasons of the under-20 league for each game played are presented in Table 1. Winning teams in this competition had better values in all game-related statistics, with the exception of 3 point field goals and free throws missed and turnovers (p = 0.05).

The main effect of game number was only identified in turnovers, with a statistical significant decrease between the second and third game. No interaction was found in the analysed variables (Table 1). ... "

"... The remaining results seem to confirm previous studies by identifying the same game-related statistics that discriminate winning and losing teams. The contribution of defensive rebounds to winning basketball games is already widely documented.

This statistic represents the "teams' ability to recover the ball after opponent's missed shots and a successful defensive rebounding team probably has more opportunities to shoot, score points and win the game".

Indirectly, high level performances are associated with
i) game rhythm, because more defensive rebounds implies more fast-break ball possessions;
ii) players somatic characteristics, taller and stronger players secure more rebounds;
iii) technical and tactical preparation, pivoting, blocking, anticipation, securing and pulling the ball away, and,
iv) muscular fitness, particularly in stretch-shortening-cycle jumping performances. ..."

"... Key points:

Overall team performances along the three consecutive games were very similar, not confirming an accumulated fatigue effect.

The results from the three-point field goals in the third game suggested that winning teams were able to shoot better from longer distances and this could be the result of exhibiting higher conditioning status and/or the losing teams' exhibiting low conditioning in defense. ..."

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To read today's 'Press Clippings' in Spanish, click this week above on the 'Español' tab or afterwards click here: ' Efectos de Partidos Consecutivos de Basquetbol sobre las Estadísticas Relacionadas con el Juego que Discriminan entre Equipos Ganadores y Perdedores ' by Javier Ibañez.

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