The relationship of some bodily features and physical abilities to the level of performance of some basic basketball skills among young players

Abstract

Finding the relationships between some features  of high-level players through the features of physical measurements and some physical attributes related to the type of activity and basic skills gives us a clear and real perception of the extent of homogeneity between these variables that can be a model adopted by coaches to determine the features of the outstanding players in these the game.

Therefore, the availability of information about the most important features  of the players, including their body, physical, skill and other features, can be a suitable entry point for evaluating the extent of their competencies to play the game of basketball, and gives us information about these variables that may be the main reason for the individual differences between them and their levels. The coach has unambiguous facts about the  features of each player and thus can build the tactical side of the team according to the  features of each player. The problem of the research was determined by the wrong choice of players by the coaches in carrying out tactical duties that the player may not be able to carry out due to the weak correlation between the body  measurements and physical and skill traits. The research aims to determine the body and physical measurements and to show the extent of their relationship to the skill performance of young players and to compare them in some clubs in the province of Babylon and Al-Diwaniyah in basketball. The researchers used many physical measurements such as height, weight, humeral circumference  , forearm circumference, leg circumference, thigh circumference, torso length, arm length, lower limb length (in addition to some physical characteristics such as) explosive power of the upper and lower limbs, coordination and agility (and basic skills) , chest pass, peaceful shooting, free throw, shooting speed under the basket). The researchers concluded the following:                                                                                            

1.There is a discrepancy in the correlation between the physical measurements and the physical characteristic of the sample members

2.We found a discrepancy in the correlation relations between the basic skills and the variables of physical measurements and physical traits, and that most of these correlations were natural and commensurate with the contribution of each variable to the development of basic skills performance, except for the leg circumference variable, which did not have any correlation with the basic skills.