The effects of increased shooting distance in the basketball jump shot

摘要: Three‐dimensional video techniques (50 Hz) were used to obtain images of basketball jump shots from one three distances ‐ short range (group 1, n = 5); medium 2, long 3, 5) the basket, as performed by members men's quarter‐finalist teams at games XVI Universiade in Sheffield 1991. Fifteen sequences digitized, beginning 20 frames prior take‐off 10 after release. To facilitate analysis, rotated about ball position final frame so that shot direction was parallel pre‐defined orthogonal axes. Mean (+1 s.d.) release speed found increase with distance basket 1 3.04±0.65 m s‐1, group 2 4.71+0.74 3 6.24 + 0.80 s‘1), while mean angles similar for all groups 1=48.8 10.1°, 47.8 5.8°, 51.9 5.5°). The increased impulse necessary reach shooting ...