Does game pressure affect hand selection of NBA basketball players?

Giovanini, Bruno; Marcori, Alexandre Jehan; Monteiro, Pedro Henrique Martins; Okazaki, Victor Hugo Alves

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101785

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“…Our qualitative inquiry found that participants believed bilateral skill to be advantageous for performers in meeting this need; a finding that is consistent with popular belief (Carey et al, 2009;Parrington & Ball, 2016). At first glance, this belief is inconsistent with previous quantitative inquiries (Ball, 2011;Carey et al, 2009;Giovanini et al, 2020;Stöckel & Weigelt, 2012), which have primarily reported that even professional athletes demonstrate a strong preference for one side. However, these quantitative notational analysis studies have examined all skill executions within a match.…”

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“…However, on those rare occasions where they used their nondominant side, players were as proficient as with their dominant side (Carey et al, 2009(Carey et al, , 2001. The absence of performance differences during game play between dominant and nondominant sides has also been found in elite soccer (Marcori et al, 2021) and basketball (Giovanini et al, 2020). In Australian football, Ball (2011) reported that 80% of kicks were performed with the dominant side, although some players were ambidextrous, performing 45% of kicks with the nondominant side.…”

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“…More recent research has examined the influence of various constraints (Balagué et al, 2019;Newell, 1986) on bilateral skill performance. Professional basketball players were found to be heavily reliant upon the dominant side when shooting but were more balanced when dribbling (54% preferred hand) (Giovanini et al, 2020). In addition, higher levels of pressure (based upon time of season and whether a team was playing at home or away) selectively influenced the frequency with which the dominant side was used, with an increased reliance on the dominant side for passing, on the nondominant side for catching, but with no effect on dribbling or shooting.…”

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“…The experiential knowledge of successful coaches can enhance empirical research on sports performance (Connor et al, 2020;Greenwood et al, 2012;Otte et al, 2020). To date, the definition and development of bilateral skill symmetry has been investigated via a quantitative approach (Giovanini et al, 2020;Guilherme et al, 2015;Marcori et al, 2021). A complimentary qualitative approach has two key advantages.…”

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The Development of Bilateral Skill Symmetry: Insights From Gaelic Football Players and Coaches

Dillon

Kinnerk

Sherwin

et al. 2022

Journal of Motor Learning and Development

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Developing players who are adept at using both sides of the body (i.e., bilateral skill) is a challenge for coaches in many sports. With players being required to execute a range of skills with hand and foot on both sides of the body, Gaelic football provides an ideal natural laboratory for the study of laterality. Previous quantitative research has produced equivocal findings regarding the importance of bilateral skill performance in sport. In light of this equivocality, this paper utilized a qualitative approach to distill the beliefs and experiences of 14 players and five coaches who had performed at the highest level in Gaelic football. Three higher order categories were produced from the transcripts: the importance of being bilaterally skilled, the potential to develop bilateral skill, and methods to develop bilateral skills. Overall, this study highlights lessons for the design of future quantitative studies of bilateral skill in sport and should stimulate reflection on current practice regarding both short- and long-term bilateral skill development on the part of researchers, applied sport scientists, and coaches.

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The Development of Bilateral Skill Symmetry: Insights From Gaelic Football Players and Coaches

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Sherwin

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Journal of Motor Learning and Development

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“…The decision is made primarily through the stimulation of visual information for all possible stimuli related to the completion of the action to achieve the best performance. Visual attention plays a decisive role in energy competition and is a critical psychological guarantee for athletes to achieve good results (Giovanini et al, 2020). As for basketball players, they face a lot of information and need to make effective response choices in a very short time, so the choice of relevant information becomes the basis of winning.…”

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Convolutional Neural Network-Based Human Movement Recognition Algorithm in Sports Analysis

Liu

2021

Front. Psychol.

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In order to analyse the sports psychology of athletes and to identify the psychology of athletes in their movements, a human action recognition (HAR) algorithm has been designed in this study. First, a HAR model is established based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the current action state by analysing the action information of a task in the collected videos. Secondly, the psychology of basketball players displaying fake actions during the offensive and defensive process is investigated by combining with related sports psychological theories. Then, the psychology of athletes is also analysed through the collected videos, so as to predict the next response action of the athletes. Experimental results show that the combination of grayscale and red-green-blue (RGB) images can reduce the image loss and effectively improve the recognition accuracy of the model. The optimised convolutional three-dimensional network (C3D) HAR model designed in this study has a recognition accuracy of 80% with an image loss of 5.6. Besides, the time complexity is reduced by 33%. Therefore, the proposed optimised C3D can recognise effectively human actions, and the results of this study can provide a reference for the investigation of the image recognition of human action in sports.

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Cultural and environmental aspects influence lateral preferences

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Monteiro³

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Int J Psychol

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Transcultural approaches comparing the distribution of lateral preference between countries focused primarily on handedness. However, other laterality dimensions may also be susceptible to cultural variations. The present study compared lateral preference in five dimensions (hand, foot, trunk, hearing, and visual) of young adults from Brazil and Mozambique. Two hundred and two undergraduate students participated in the study, of which 101 were Brazilian (21.7 ± 1.66 years old) and 101 Mozambican (25.6 ± 6.2 years old). The participants' lateral preference direction and degree were assessed using the global lateral preference inventory. Most Brazilians were classified in the moderate preference category, while Mozambicans had a higher frequency of individuals with strong preferences. Hence, Mozambicans presented a higher lateralization degree for all dimensions. A subsequent analysis considering only preference direction (right, left or indifferent), and not degree, did not show the same outcomes, revealing similarities in preference distribution between the two groups. This finding highlights the necessity to incorporate preference degrees in future analysis to not overlook potential differences. We also conclude lateral preference investigations with transcultural approaches should analyse beyond handedness, as other dimensions can also be modulated by cultural characteristics.

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Does game pressure affect hand selection of NBA basketball players?

Cited by 9 publications

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The Development of Bilateral Skill Symmetry: Insights From Gaelic Football Players and Coaches

The Development of Bilateral Skill Symmetry: Insights From Gaelic Football Players and Coaches

Convolutional Neural Network-Based Human Movement Recognition Algorithm in Sports Analysis

Cultural and environmental aspects influence lateral preferences

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