Effect of Acceleration and Deceleration Power Exercises on improving Offensive Move without a Ball in Juniors’ Basketball matches

Document Type : Original Article

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Sports Games Training Department, Faculty of Physical Education for Girls, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

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A distinguished basketball team is a team whose members know how to use their feet to the best of their ability and move strategically on the court without a ball in matches; they know how to sprint suddenly and quickly, change direction without warning, stop abruptly without slowing down gradually, change their pace when necessary, and jump high at the exact moment to get rid of the opponent. This study aims at determining effect of acceleration and deceleration power exercises on improving acceleration and deceleration level and offensive move without a ball of female juniors’ basketball matches.
The training program for acceleration and deceleration power exercises of the experimental group (n= 20) was applied for (16) weeks, with (3) units per week in the special preparation period, the pre-match preparation period, and the match period of season 2020/2021. The tests used for pre, inter and post measurements were: a 3×3 match to analyze the offensive move without a ball for juniors using Utilius® Vs Advanced version (4.5.8), a 10-m sprint test measuring acceleration, and a 5-0-5 sprint test to measure deceleration. The most important results were the presence of statistically significant differences between pre, inter, and post measurements in improving the level of acceleration and deceleration of basketball female juniors in favor of the post measurement. Moreover, there were statistically significant differences between pre, inter, and post measurements in improving the level of offensive move without a ball for female juniors' basketball matches in favor of the post measurement.

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