MODERN COACHING APPROACHES TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PROCESS FOR YOUNG BASKETBALL PLAYERS IN DIFFERENT ROLES

Abstract

Introduction. Changes in the basketball game rules, improvement of training methods for young athletes, and current trends in the development of the game in the world change views and attitudes of experienced coaches to the organization of the training process. Debatable questions between supporters of early game specialization and their opponents regarding the determination of the specialization starting time, choice specifics, peculiarities of requirements, and approaches to the training of technical and tactical actions for the respective game role of players stipulate to emphasise the problem and its consideration. Aim is to investigate and substantiate the approaches for coaches of children and youth teams to the organization of the educational and training process concerning the game roles of young basketball players. Material and methods: analysis and generalization of data taken from scientific and methodical literature sources and the Internet, comparative and historical (comparative) research method, questionnaires using google-form, methods of mathematical statistics. Results. Due to 11 questions of the google-form, a survey of 27 coaches of the All-Ukrainian Youth Basketball League was conducted regarding debatable issues related to the training of young basketball players. Modern approaches to the work of coaches-practitioners were implied to determine the game specialization starting time, choice specifics, the peculiarities of requirements, and approaches to training technical and tactical actions of players of the appropriate role. Conclusion. The current position for experienced coaches of children and youth teams of boys and girls, who won prizes in the All-Ukrainian Youth Basketball League was defined, regarding approaches to the educational and training process concerning the beginning of studying and features of the requirements for game specialization. It was found that the majority of respondents develop the skills for the game of a young basketball player in a specific game role at the age of 13-14 and against early specialization; the priority of the choice for the game role focuses on the physical qualities and realization of distribution during training according to three categories (defender, striker, central); among the requirements for the role are the basic functionality of technical and tactical actions, the need to compete in different roles and the need to acquire skills and abilities to implement in the competitive process, inherent to the adjacent roles