Optimising technical skills and physical loading in small-sided basketball games

Abstract

Differences in physiological, physical, and technical demands of small-sided basketball games related to the number of players, court size, and work-to-rest ratios are not well characterised. A controlled trial was conducted to compare the influence of number of players (2v2/4v4), court size (half/full court) and work-to-rest ratios (4x2.5 min/2x5 min) on the demands of small-sided games. Sixteen elite male and female junior players (aged 15-19 years) completed eight variations of a small-sided game in randomised order over a six-week period. Heart rate responses and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) were measured to assess the physiological load. Movement patterns and technical elements were assessed by video analysis. There were ∼60% more technical elements in 2v2 and ∼20% more in half court games. Heart rate (86 ± 4% & 83 ± 5% of maximum; mean ± SD) and RPE (8 ± 2 & 6 ± 2; scale 1-10) were moderately higher in 2v2 than 4v4 small-sided games, respectively. The 2v2 format elicited substantially more sprints (36 ±12%; mean ±90% confidence limits) and high intensity shuffling (75 ±17%) than 4v4. Full court games required substantially more jogging (9 ±6%) compared to half court games. Fewer players in small-sided basketball games substantially increases the technical, physiological and physical demands.

Stability of internal response and external load during 4-a-side football game in an indoor environment

“…In sports games it is very important to ensure receiving the same training load for all players to prevent undertraining or overtraining (Little & Williams, 2006). To check the intra-individual reproducibility and inter-individual variability is crucial for practical application of SSG because using SSG with good interindividual variability supports unified training load for all players and will allow for the provision of a progressive training load over time (Klusemann, Pyne, Foster, & Drinkwater, 2012). Moreover it facilitates the planning of the training process and more training time could be spent as team training including SSG with simultaneous specific endurance, technical, and tactical development.…”

“…Moreover it facilitates the planning of the training process and more training time could be spent as team training including SSG with simultaneous specific endurance, technical, and tactical development. According to Gabbett, Jenkins, and Abernethy (2010) SSG with good reproducibility and variability allow greater transfer of physiological adaptations, because the players simultaneously develop technical and tactical skills under high physical load, and hence skill executions per player, and higher motivation of athletes (Klusemann et al, 2012).…”

Comparación del perfil físico entre 3x3 y 5x5 de baloncesto formativo / Physical Profile Comparison Between 3x3 and 5x5 Basketball Training

“…Con intención de provocar un incremento o reducción de las demandas técnicas, físicas y fisiológicas de su práctica, los entrenadores de baloncesto pueden manipular las variables de los diferentes juegos en espacios reducidos (Klusemann, Pyne, Foster, y Drinkwater, 2012). Variables como el número de jugadores, las dimensiones del campo y el tiempo de descanso determinarán las exigencias físicas, fisiológicas y técnicas, y por lo tanto, las adaptaciones al entrenamiento de los juegos en espacios reducidos (Klusemann et al, 2012).…”

“…Uno de los aspectos que ya ha sido estudiado (Klusemann et al, 2012) es los efectos en la demanda fisiológica que provoca en los jugadores la reducción en el número de participantes por equipo en una tarea de baloncesto. Las conclusiones del estudio fueron que aumentaron las demandas fisiológicas cuando se redujo el número de jugadores.…”

Heart rate response and technical demands of different small-sided game formats in young female basketballers. [Respuesta de la frecuencia cardíaca y demanda técnica en diferentes formatos de juegos reducidos realizados por jugadoras jóvenes de baloncesto].

“…It has allowed to understand what variables can be modified to focus in the main training objectives (Aguiar et al, 2012). Nevertheless, there is a lack of information about the constraints manipulation in basketball, where it has been described the physical or technical-tactical responses associated to different number of players (Castagna, Impellizzeri, Chaouachi, Ben Abdelkrim & Manzi, 2011;Delextrat & Kraiem, 2013;Montgomery, Pyne & Minahan, 2010), with/without dribble (Conte, Favero, Niederhausen, Capranica & Tessitore, 2016), court dimensions (Klusemann, Pyne, Foster & Drinkwater, 2012;Marcelino, Aoki, Arruda, Freitas, Mendez-Villanueva & Moreira, 2016)) and work-to-rest-ratio (Kluseman et al, 2012). For example, several studies about the SSG have focused in the number of players (i.e., 3 vs. 3, 4 vs. 4), identifying a higher exercise intensity as the number of participants decreases (Delextrat et al, 2013;Gracia et al, 2014;Mccormick, Hannon, Newton, Shultz, Miller & Young, 2012;Ortega, Palao & Puigcerver, 2009;Sampaio et al, 2009).…”