When learning to walk, it has been suggested that humans transition from discrete, aperiodic steps to a periodic gait in order to conserve energy and increase stability. It is possible this same factors apply when humans perform complex movements with their upper limbs. For instance, when a basketball player practices free throws or a tennis player hits many serves in a row, the time between th...

The objective of this study is to analyse the game-related statistics that differentiate winning and losing teams, according finale game scores in a men’s university basketball league. Samples were gathered from archival data 2019–2020 regular season Sixteen analysed: two- three-point field-goals (both successful unsuccessful), free-throws defensive offensive rebounds, assists, steals, turnover...

At present, world sports events become more and more various, but basketball is still one of Chinese youth favorite sports events, Chinese basketball teaching also gradually becomes focus of researching. The paper analyzes Chinese basketball teaching status. Firstly, it studies China university basketball super League cultural background competition rules, it finds out that China university bas...

In the present study, field goal shooting skills of female basketball players were assessed in the background to their reasoning ability. The sample consists of 100 female intercollegiate basketball players (age = 21.05±1.67 yrs.). Shooting skills reasoning ability were assessed by Johnson’s “Basketball Field Goal Speed Shooting Test” and Mixed Type Group Test of Intelligence prepared by Mehr...

Basketball is constantly booming with China’s material and cultural levels development. And basketball reserve personnel quantity and quality stand for a nation basketball level. On the current all countries basketball levels rapidly development situation in the world, cultivation of basketball reserve personnel has become an indispensible condition to be in an invincible position in intense ba...

The main aims of the study were: to explore the latent structure of the construct of hardiness at Croatian top basketball players and to gain an understanding of the relationship between obtained hardiness dimensions and situation-related efficacy in basketball. Situation efficacy of individual basketball players in top teams is linked to the constellation of a number of relevant anthropologica...

In contemporary society, so as to enhance Chinese basketball level, reform of Chinese basketball professionalization has been constantly deepened, while basketball clubs development is the internal impetus of Chinese basketball undertakings. The paper analyses specific situation of Chinese basketball clubs, and finds that most of Chinese sports clubs are sponsored and constructed by good corpor...

We present evidence, based on play-by-play data from all 6087 games from the 2006/07– 2009/10 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA), that basketball scoring is well described by a continuous-time anti-persistent random walk. The time intervals between successive scoring events follow an exponential distribution, with essentially no memory between different scoring intervals. By i...

Eight international caliber wheelchair male athletes (3 basketball, 5 distance track) performed an all-out propulsion effort from a standing start for 10 seconds on a wheelchair ergometer. Comparisons between the basketball and track athletes on linear wheelchair and push rim velocity during the first 3 pushes and the peak value indicated that the basketball players had a significantly (p less ...