Analysis of Set Shot in Basketball in Relation with Time to Perform the Course and Displacement of Center of Gravity

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analysis of the technique of set shot while attempting free throws with the performance, in relation with time to perform the course and displacement of center of gravity. Sixty National level male basketball players of three different height groups i.e. Group I: 5’5’’ to 5’8’’,Group II: 5’9” to 6’ and Group III: 6’ 1” to 6’4”,(20 in each group) were selected as subjects for the study. The data was obtained from two given positions (i) Moment of stance in set shot and (ii) Moment of release of ball in set shot. Total ten attempts were given and the successful shots marked as score out of ten as criterion measure of performance. Four Digital Video cameras Sony 2100 series were used in order to register the technique of set shot while attempting set shot. The films were analyzed by using standard motion analyzer. With regard to purpose of the study techniques of product moment correlation and analysis of variance were applied. In order to check the significance, level of significance was set at 0.05. It was found that there is significant relationship between the time to perform the course and the performance in set shot of different height group players in basketball and there is no significant relationship found between the displacement of center of gravity and the performance of set shot of different height group players in basketball and therefore, the selected variable puts no impact on the performance of set shot. It was also concluded that Time to perform the course had lowest impact (7%) in the performance. Further it was concluded that displacement of center of gravity was significantly different in first group (5’5’’ to 5’8’’) from the other two groups.