Abstract
Journal of Physical Fitness, Medicine & Treatment in Sports is an interdisciplinary open access peer reviewed journal that publishes original research, reviews, short communication, case reports, news, commentaries etc., in the field of sports medicine, treatment and exercise medication.
Highlights
Small sided games within basketball are not new to the training environment, with coaches often using restricted player scrimmage variants of 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 in both the full and half-court to develop both tactical and fitness characteristics of their players
At the international elite junior and senior levels, male 3x3 players are generally shorter and females taller, and both have greater body mass compared to traditional basketball players, with mass increasing as players move from junior to senior 3x3 levels and compete in World Championships or professional events
When assessed with standard performance tests, there was often little difference between levels for male and female 3x3 players across the international tournaments assessed here, clear outcomes were shown for several physiological aspects which may reveal that 3x3 players are a cohort of players that have different performance capacities, and this may be related to the differing game demands of 3x3 compared to traditional basketball
Summary
Small sided games within basketball are not new to the training environment, with coaches often using restricted player scrimmage variants of 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 in both the full and half-court to develop both tactical and fitness characteristics of their players. With 3x3 basketball making its first international appearance at the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games, structured international competition of the 3x3 format is common Since this introduction there has been increasing popularity of 3x3 basketball internationally; According to an IOC-commissioned study, 3x3 is the most popular urban team sport in the world[1] and has received recent inclusion to the 2020 Olympic games. The physical and physiological characteristics of traditional basketball players are well documented[3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] with specific innate characteristics such as height, mass, arm span and muscle mass orienting players to one of the traditionally designated playing roles of guard, forward and centre. Assessment of positional role differences in the aerobic and anaerobic power of elite male basketball players described that there was a clear difference between the different groups of players, with guards and forwards exhibiting greater aerobic
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