Comparison of Physical and Motoric Characteristics by Playing Positions in Basketball-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Comparison of Physical and Motoric Characteristics by Playing Positions in Basketball

Published:2022-10-26 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2536-5339
Container-title:Gaziantep Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Dergisi
language:tr
Short-container-title:GUJSS

Author:

CENGİZEL Elif¹^ORCID,CENGİZEL Çağdaş Özgür¹

Affiliation:

1. Gazi University, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Department of Coaching Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare of physical and motoric characteristics by playing positions in basketball. Seventy nine male adolescent basketball players from center (n=11), guard (n=39) and forward (n=29) playing positions voluntarily participated in the study (mean age respectively, centers: 14,9 ± 1,2 years, guards: 13,9 ± 0,8 years, forwards: 13,7 ± 1,5 years). The body height, body weight, 20 m sprint, Illiniois agility test and jumping test (vertical & horizontal) were applied. One-way analysis of variance was used to determine the differences between the playing positions. Data which passed the equality of variance test were analyzed with Tukey statistics (p

Publisher

Gaziantep Universitesi

Subject

General Medicine

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