Fig 1.
Effect sizes between selected and non-selected male U16 basketballers.
BM–body mass; CMJ–countermovement jump; YYIR2 –Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 2; BJSAT–Basketball Jump Shooting Accuracy Test: DM–decision-making; Comp–competitiveness; Det.–determination; SB–self-belief; PC–positive cognition; Vis.–visualisation.
Fig 2.
Effect sizes between selected and non-selected male U18 basketballers.
BM–body mass; CMJ–countermovement jump; YYIR2 –Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 2; BJSAT–Basketball Jump Shooting Accuracy Test: DM–decision-making; Comp–competitiveness; Det.–determination; SB–self-belief; PC–positive cognition; Vis.–visualisation.
Table 1.
Mean ± standard deviation anthropometric, physical, technical, tactical, and psychological attributes with statistical comparisons between selected and non-selected male adolescent basketball athletes according to age group.
Fig 3.
Effect sizes between selected and non-selected female U16 basketballers.
BM–body mass; CMJ–countermovement jump; YYIR2 –Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 2; BJSAT–Basketball Jump Shooting Accuracy Test: DM–decision-making; Comp–competitiveness; Det.–determination; SB–self-belief; PC–positive cognition; Vis.–visualisation.
Fig 4.
Effect sizes between selected and non-selected female U18 basketballers.
BM–body mass; CMJ–countermovement jump; YYIR2 –Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 2; BJSAT–Basketball Jump Shooting Accuracy Test: DM–decision-making; Comp–competitiveness; Det.–determination; SB–self-belief; PC–positive cognition; Vis.–visualisation.
Table 2.
Mean ± standard deviation anthropometric, physical, technical, tactical, and psychological attributes with statistical comparisons between selected and non-selected adolescent female basketball athletes according to age group.
Table 3.
Stepwise discriminant analyses to identify the strongest variables predicting selection into a talent pathway in adolescent basketball athletes according to sex and age group.