Team timeout calling in handball

Gomes, Fernando; Volossovitch, Anna; Ferreira, António Paulo

doi:10.1080/24748668.2014.11868706

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“…The relationship was significant. These findings are in line with the results from Gomes, Volossovitch & Ferreira [22] analyzes on Spanish handball. On the other hand timeouts were less likely to be used during a positive flow.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…These findings are in correspondence with former research on handball [22]. Coaches see timeouts as a limited resource and therefore tend to be cautions on using their timeouts because they may be needed for critical moments later in games.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Around one quarter of all timeouts were used by teams with even score or a positive score in the last five minutes leading to the timeout. This is also in line with the results from Gomes, Volossovitch & Ferreira [22]. Though the coaches sometimes use timeouts on such occasions, for various reasons, they realize that by taking a timeout in a good spell in the game they give their opponents an additional timeout as well -and an opportunity to try to turn things around.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…To sum up, the decision-making process of handball coaches in relation to using timeouts is multifactorial [4,10,22] and it highlights the coach as strategist of team play. There is no one reason for coaches to use a timeout in handball.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Only one published study has focused especially on team timeouts in handball. Gomes, Volossovitch & Ferreira [22] analyzed when team timeouts were used in the Spanish Men´s National league. Their findings showed that team timeouts were used in even games, in later stages of games and when teams were facing a negative flow.…”

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Coaches Use of Team Timeouts in Handball: A Mixed Method Analysis

Halldorsson¹

2016

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Coaches play a multifunctional key role in high-performance team sports. One of the coaches' responsibilities, in some sports, is to use team timeouts effectively. The sport science literature has however only given limited attention to the use of timeouts -this is especially the case in handball. This is somewhat surprising since timeouts can be used as a strategic intervention in the dynamic interplay on the field. This study examines why coaches' use team timeouts in handball and the efficiency of those timeouts. The study is built on a mixed method analysis; a) on interviews with six experienced handball coaches and; b) statistical analysis on all team timeouts during the 2014 Men´s European Handball Championship. The former method was used to establish hypotheses of why coaches use timeouts and the latter to test those hypotheses statistically. The findings from the interviews suggest that there are several reasons why coaches use timeouts in handball, most importantly to stop a negative flow in the game. Other reasons where to emphasize or change play strategy, to rest players, to slow the game down or to try to secure a goal. The statistical findings show support to the coaches' criteria of when they use timeouts. The results further showed that timeouts are efficient in stopping a negative flow in the game, but failed to show a significant relationship of the timeout leading to a goal in the following attack. Further research is needed to address various questions that arise from this study.

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