Senior Physical Education | Unit 2: Topic 1: Folio

1. Make spacing a priority
2. Best shooters shoot the most
3. Evaluate your foul shooting
4. Less is more
5. Use Screens to Create Mismatches

"In order to become a well-rounded offensive player, you must be able to hurt the opposition in many ways. Part of this equation comes when you attack the basket, both aggressively and intelligently."

"Learn how to master proven offensive sets along with their counter options, and to understand the strategies behind them that make them so successful. HoopTactics offensive presentations go well beyond just the basic play action. They include defensive reads & counters adjustments, automatic options against defensive over-plays, ball reversals, and continuities along with variations & adaptations."

"Offensive strategies are applied to counter various kinds of defensive tactics imposed by the opposition, to make advancement up the court possible and to get open shots and eventually to score goals. But for getting desired results, teams have to adopt a suitable offensive tactic and must ensure the perfect execution of the strategy"

A great hyperlinked resource for many aspects offensive play.

"Fast break! Or do you prefer to rely on the defense? In basketball, the tactics of the game often decide between defeat and victory. Here you will learn everything about the basics of strategy, the typical tactics in basketball and which exercises you can use to practice the different moves."

"This book presents current research in the study of sport psychology including such topics as the social and environmental influences on athletic motivation; superstitious beliefs on athlete's cognitive and affective responses; socio-psychological risk among at-risk student athletes; and mental toughness in sports.

"Over the past several years, both coaches and athletes have started to realize that strength, speed, and other athletic skills are not sufficient for the production of championship athletes. Athletic performance has three parts: physical preparation, technical skill, and psychological readiness. This model suggests that if any of the above areas are neglected, athletic performance will decline. However, psychological preparation is the component that is most often neglected by athletes and coaches alike. This book presents and discusses research on topics which are relevant to the field of sport psychology"

"Contemporary Sport Psychology captures the contributions of world-wide experts, based upon earlier special editions of a peer reviewed sport psychology journal titled Athletic Insight."

"Goal setting is one of the most frequently used mental skills in sports, and Goal Setting Theory has been the most prominent theoretical framework upon which goal setting interventions are based. The present study provides a systematic review examining how the tenets of GST have been applied to goal setting interventions in sport"

This paper is a Master’s Thesis presented to The Graduate College of Missouri State University in 2017.
".The primary aim of this study was to assess the magnitude of the effects of goal setting (goals defined by a coach vs goals defined by the athlete) on the shooting and passing accuracy of high school female basketball players. It was found that coach defined goals resulted in overall greater improvement in shooting and passing basketball performance. "

"The present paper explores the role of motivation to observe a certain outcome in people’s predictions, causal attributions, and beliefs about a streak of binary outcomes (basketball scoring shots). In two studies we found that positive streaks (points scored by the participants’ favourite team) lead participants to predict the streak’s continuation (belief in the hot hand), but negative streaks lead to predictions of its end (gambler’s fallacy). More importantly, these wishful predictions are supported by strategic attributions and beliefs about how and why a streak might unfold. Results suggest that the effect of motivation on predictions is mediated by a serial path via causal attributions to the teams at play and belief in the hot hand"

"The present study tested whether practice using a performance goal enhances accuracy when later tested under the demands of a competition outcome goal for a basketball free throw task."

"Previous research has demonstrated that one person's expectations can influence the behavior of another person, thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. This study examined the effects of ability-based expectations in an experiment in which some participants ("coaches") were assigned false expectations of the basketball free-throw shooting ability of other participants ("players"). "

"The present study also hoped to determine whether the type of motivation that athletes reported and their goal-setting behavior differed depending on whether they were recreational or elite collegiate athletes."

"The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of a single mental training session on the free throw performance and self-efficacy of young athletes."

"Over the past two decades, imagery visualization has become substantially popular in both academic discipline and applied practice, but few within the realm of competitive athletics would argue with the importance of being mentally prepared prior athletic competition and the need that a particular type of mindset is needed before the actual competition or test. However, recent research has shown that many athletes and sporting administrators as well as coaches are still reluctant to seek the services of a qualified and professional sports psychologist even if they believe it could help them."

"Motor imagery when coupled with motivational and cognitive factors has been shown to enhance multiple aspects of sports performance. This paper reviews existing imagery approaches, and proposes a method based on applied applications, intended to increase short and long-term motivation"

"Over the past 15 years there has been much research into the PETTLEP model of motor imagery, originally designed to improve the quality and impact of imagery interventions on sport performance. This article reviews the most recent trends within this research."

" The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of eight weeks training of mental imagery and goal setting on skill acquisition i.e. dribbling, passing, defense and shooting of 15 female basketball players at the university level."

"In our search for hints and ideas on improving attentional processes in sport, we analyzed in previous articles the concept of attention and differentiated between various types of attention and attentional skills. We also tried to
identify sport specific issues of attention, using a comparative case study of tennis. In this paper we want to suggest another possible attitude, i.e. studying various exercises and ideas used to or recommended to improve attention in sports. "
* Mentions performance segmenting

"One of the simplest concepts of sports psychology is developing positive self-talk. It’s also one of the hardest sports psychology skills to master."

"Self-affirmation interventions and theory have promising applications in sports and exercise, including facilitating achievement and helping individuals respond adaptively to setbacks."

"In Mindfulness for Student Athletes, you'll find practical and tactical ways to cope with stress and anxiety in the moment, prevent stress in the future, and experience more satisfaction and enjoyment while playing sports. You'll also find proven-effective tools to naturally enhance your performance"

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"Empirical literature addressing the effectiveness of self-talk for expert performers is lacking.
We addressed this shortcoming within the existent literature and examined the comparative effects of instructional and motivational self-talk on basketball free throw shooting accuracy
and salient movement kinematics."

"This study aimed to examine whether motivational (level of self-determination and satisfaction of the basic psychological needs) and social antecedents (team potency) related to athletes´ cognitive behavior (self-talk) during competition in team sports."

"The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between self-presentation and team cohesion among different competitive team sports of Ethiopian Universities."

"The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of team cohesion, intra team communication, and team norms on team member satisfaction and intention to remain of team players. "

"This study tests how transformational leadership fosters team performance through team cohesion and how that relationship is moderated by previous team performance and leadership consensus. "

"This study aims to assess momentum perceptions in a context in which momentum could be relevant, but where empirical data have shown that no momentum exists. In particular, we take the scenario of a basketball game that is tied at the end of regulation time."

"The present study examined the relationships among cohesion, self-efficacy, coaches’ perceptions of their players’ efficacy at the individual level and athletes’ perceptions of their teammates’ efficacy."

"The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between cohesion (social and team) and performance in Basketball league in Kenya."

"This article will run from how to develop a pre performance routine, via four questions, which will help you to develop your own routine."

"Sport psychology researchers have tested the effectiveness of behavioural (i.e., related to actions) and cognitive (i.e., related to thoughts) routines in a variety of sports, including basketball, golf, ice hockey, volleyball, water polo, ten-pin bowling, and rugby. Overall this research suggests that Pre-performance routines are effective."

'The development of a pre-performance routine continues to be an intuitively appealing and widely accepted technique to enhance preparation for performance in sport. However, actual understanding falls somewhat short of that required to recommend with confidence the development of a pre-performance routine. At a fundamental level it is still not clear what function routines fulfil, what they should consist of or the most effective way to teach them."
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"The main aim of this study was to present the effect of progressive muscle
relaxation on pressure pain threshold levels and the effectiveness of the footballer’s training."
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"The present study was conducted to examine the effects of progressive muscle relaxation technique on mental skills of volleyball players."

"In Mindfulness for Student Athletes, you'll find practical and tactical ways to cope with stress and anxiety in the moment, prevent stress in the future, and experience more satisfaction and enjoyment while playing sports. You'll also find proven-effective tools to naturally enhance your performance."

"The aim of this research was to find the correlation between different kinds of relaxation techniques and sports performance."

"When gearing up for a big match, very few athletes actually take the time to sit back and take a breath. The simple acts of inhaling, exhaling and relaxing for just a few moments can have a significant impact on sporting performance"

"Find flow and reach peak performance—in sports and in life. Based on the groundbreaking Still Quiet Place mindfulness program, this workbook provides practical, step-by-step exercises and skills to help you gain present-moment awareness and achieve your athletic goals."

"The present study aims to describe knowledge about and usage of mental techniques to prepare before competitions and after sport-associated injuries (SAIs) by professional athletes (team sports) in Austria."