How to mentally prepare for basketball tryouts

How to Mentally Prepare For Tryouts

Performing With Trust in Tryouts

Many athletes always ask me:

With middle school and high school tryouts right around the corner, you want to be mentally ready to compete your best and not panic…

Tryouts can be a stressful time for many athletes. You can feel anxious, nervous, and just plain “scared.”

You want to have a focused and confident mindset instead of scared so you can perform well.

You might experience a feeling of being “on a stage” during tryouts or a showcase.

You have a day or two to show the coach your skills, and you often think you have to stand out or perform perfectly.

That’s actually not true and can hurt your performance because you might over think it and tighten up…

Yes, you only have a day or two, but you absolutely don’t have to stand out or be perfect.

Coaches see talent, but they also see “potential” in athletes in middle and high school.

Also, many coaches want to see you when you are having a bad day. They want to see how you respond or handle challenges.

You want to have the look of composure and grind it out when having a bad day or look like you are still trying.

Coaches know when an athlete can play or when they have the potential to play, even on a bad day.

So, during your tryouts, use the skills you have that day, no matter how good you feel about your game, and trust what you have.

Eight tips to mentally prepare for tryouts:

1. Leave your expectations at home, they won’t help you.
2. Focus on one play, routine, performance, etc. at a time. Avoid thinking about outcomes or cuts.
3. Let go of mistakes and focus on the next play, round, performance, etc.
4. “Look” confident: keep your head up, shoulders back, and talk confidently.
5. Communicate with your teammates. Coaches want to see you communicate and show leadership.
6. Be teachable – try to make changes given from a coach.
7. Look forward to showing your skills at the tryout.
8. HAVE FUN!

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Back to School Stress: How to Mentally Prepare for Tryouts

August 31, 2016 

Summer is coming to an end, students are heading back to school, and sports tryouts are right around the corner. Athletes of all ages experience jitters when it comes to tryouts or being scouted. No matter your level of play, these four tips can help you prepare your mind so that you can confidently perform under pressure during tryout.

Arrive early, walk confidently, and introduce yourself to the coaching staff. This shows basic communication skills, that you can take the initiative to meet new people, and that you can be a cooperative team member. The lost art of communication includes eye contact, a formal introduction including your name and position, and a firm handshake. A formal introduction can break the ice and help you feel more comfortable as tryouts begin.

Keeping a positive mindset seems like a no-brainer, but it can be hard to do when you are under pressure. Be confident in your athletic skills and take pride in your presence on the field or on the court. If you find yourself thinking negative thoughts — e.g., “this is hard,” “the other athletes are better,” “I don’t belong here” — stop yourself and rephrase the statements into something positive. “This is hard,” can be rephrased into “this is challenging, but I can do it;” “the other athletes are better,” can be rephrased into “playing with talented athletes will help me get better;” and “I don’t belong here,” can be rephrased into “I want to be on the team and I deserve to be here.” Staying positive will help you build confidence in your skills and ability to develop a strong mind under pressure.

It can be challenging to focus on yourself during tryouts when you have dozens of other athletes around you, some competing for the same spot as the one you have your eye on. Checking out other athletes’ performances and making comparisons to your performance is a distraction. It is the coaches’ job to compare your skills to others and to determine the needs of the team. The more time you spend comparing yourself to others, the less time and mental energy you have to focus on performing at your best.

Let go of previous plays and do not worry about upcoming plays. Focusing on the current play allows you to be fully present. Thinking about the past and wondering about the future pulls your attention away from important details that are happening right now. Refocus yourself and try your best during every play. You can take time during a break to analyze your performance and make necessary adjustments for when you return to the field or court.

Developing a strategy to help reduce tryout jitters can help you remain calm and focused on your athletic performance. Taking time to introduce yourself to the coach, thinking positively, concentrating on your performance, and staying focused on the current play are four ways you can mentally prepare for tryouts. Go get ’em champ!

Psychological preparation of basketball players | Physical education

Author: Poletaeva Nina Petrovna

Organization: MBU SShOR "Yunost"

Settlement: Belgorod region, Stary Oskol

CONTENTS

Introduction

Basketball is the most important means of physical education aimed at increasing the efficiency and improving the psychophysical qualities of those involved. This is an exciting team game that contributes to the development and improvement of the physical, mental and intellectual qualities of a person; players' mastery of professional motor skills and abilities. Basketball instills in athletes willpower, endurance, perseverance, courage, determination, self-confidence, a sense of duty and responsibility, patriotism and collectivism. The effectiveness of the education of these qualities depends, first of all, on how purposefully the relationship between the physical, psychological and moral education of athletes is carried out in the training process. The training process in basketball is built on increasing the complexity and intensity of training sessions, acquiring special knowledge by players about the psychophysiological properties of the individual, the structure of the body and the biomechanics of human movements. In the process of detailed preparation for a long season full of various competitions and, directly, in the lessons on the technique and tactics of the game conducted by the coach, athletes acquire the necessary professional knowledge, skills and abilities to increase the variety of individual and team technical and tactical actions of basketball players. This suggests that the key to the successful performance of a basketball team in competitions is the high sports training of players (which is mainly realized in sports training), which includes all aspects of preparing athletes for a long sports season (theoretical, technical, tactical, moral-volitional and psychological). Thus, sports training is a complex specialized process aimed at the formation, development and improvement of the necessary physical, psychophysical and psychophysiological qualities of players, which has a versatile effect on athletes.

Basketball is a team sport that requires full dedication from each player in changing game episodes on the court; it allows you to develop endurance, good coordination of movements, flexibility, mobility and jumping ability in the game. It is an excellent school for teaching the interaction of players in a team, because success in the game depends not only on the developed eye of the athletes, but also on their ability to understand the intentions and tactics of other team members. An important factor is the ability of players to make instant decisions, taking into account the game situation on the court, since the specifics of the game involve sudden changes in direction and pace, which alternate with forced jumps during shots, fighting for a high ball and trying to cover the throw. The main task of the coach in preparing for the sports season is to gradually lead the players to optimal physical, technical, tactical and mental readiness.

1. Content and tasks of psychological training of basketball players

Psychological preparation is understood as a pedagogical process of formation and improvement of personality traits important for sports and mental qualities underlying them, in other words, psychological preparation can be understood as the process of forming a sports character [5].

The character of an athlete is determined by the properties of the personality, which is formed by fixing the necessary psychological states caused by certain mental processes. In terms of the psycho-pedagogical theory of activity, the management of mental states and the education of personality traits are correlated as a means and a result.

In this case, the mental state is understood as the corresponding attitude of the athlete to the world around him, which can arise both under the influence of external influences of the coach (external regulation of mental states), and due to the efforts of the athlete himself (self-regulation of mental states). Consequently, the coach, in addition to his own influence on the athlete's psyche, must teach him the methods of self-influence, which will significantly increase the effectiveness of the process of psychological preparation.

2. Types of regulation of mental states of an athlete

J. Wooden notes the importance of psychological training in basketball: every coach must know psychology and be a psychologist. Speaking about the “pyramid of success” he developed, which is based on diligence and enthusiasm, and faith and perseverance help to reach the peaks, he writes: “We all differ in our abilities. Some may have more abilities than you, they may be bigger, faster, stronger and have superiority in other physical qualities, but no one should surpass you in such very important qualities and characteristics as team spirit, enthusiasm, hard work, cooperation, constancy, determination, honesty, sincerity, reliability and integrity. Acquire and keep these qualities - and success is guaranteed" [2].

The need for special psychological preparation for sports competitions is clear to anyone who is preparing himself for a career as a basketball coach. Preparing a basketball player for high sporting achievements is a long process that requires certain lifestyle restrictions associated with the need for large time expenditures to participate in training. Therefore, it is important to form an appropriate psychological attitude not only to sports competitions, which are a bright holiday, but also to the heavy gray everyday life of a long training process.

All of the above allows us to consider the content of the psychological preparation of basketball players in three interrelated blocks: 1) psychological preparation for the training process; 2) psychological preparation for competitions; 3) regulation of mental states in a particular match.

Hence there are three general tasks of basketball players' psychological preparation:

— to form a positive attitude to the training process;

— to form mental qualities that contribute to success in competitions;

- create favorable mental states in a particular match.

3. The content of psychological training of basketball players

High results in modern sports require many years of intense sports training and a lifestyle subordinate to it. The athlete must be psychologically prepared for this. Such preparation is carried out in the course of the sports training itself due to the constant formation of motives that are the motives for sports and training activities, or through the creation of favorable attitudes towards various aspects of the training process. This division is conditional, since motives can be formed, in particular, through the creation of appropriate relationships. However, the specificity of motivation requires its separate consideration. The process of formation of motives and attitudes towards sports training, in addition to external regulation by the coach, can be carried out, as noted above, by self-regulation. This is an important component of the content of psychological preparation for a long training process.

From here it is possible to formulate particular tasks of psychological preparation of basketball players for a long training process:

— to form motivation for the training process;

— to form relationships that ensure the success of the training process;

— teach methods of self-regulation of psychological states.

Analysis of numerous scientific and popular literature on psychology,

experience in psychological counseling of game students and a series of experimental studies conducted jointly with students of the Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, allowed the author to come to the following conclusions.

The desire to train can arise in a player without the influence of external reasons, arbitrarily, from the awareness of sports training as a goal, from interest in the game, the desire to improve one's skills, etc. It can also be caused by external factors, such as punishment and encouragement, threat and demand, group pressure, expectation of future benefits, etc. All these incentives

for sports training (in any activity in general) are called motives in psychology.

Motivation is the most important part of the learning process, and coaches are doing the right thing by focusing on this aspect of training. Most often, a coach motivates his players using rewards and punishments.

However, it is clear to the experts that when a coach cares about increasing the level of motivation of his players, relying on their self-esteem, common sense and need for self-improvement, he achieves better results.

According to special studies of foreign sports psychologists, among the motives for going in for sports, attractive for young people can be considered the possibility of maximizing their abilities, the ability to control oneself and the environment, and achieve physical perfection.

Less significant motives include the desire to be a “real man” (for boys), achieve social status, or receive large monetary rewards.

Setting distant goals. Winning a city, country, world championship, or the Olympics are examples of far-reaching goals. The coach must show the player a series of intermediate goals, the successive achievement of which will lead the player or team to achieve far distant goals. At the same time, it is important that the achievement of the first intermediate goals is difficult, but real, allowing the athlete to experience a sense of success. Gradual achievement of goals after intense training contributes to the formation of an attitude towards a serious attitude to the training process.

Shaping and maintaining a mindset for success. At the heart of these actions of the coach is the encouragement of the development of the sports ambition of the players. Among the means of forming and maintaining the attitude to achieve success or develop sports ambition, one can note the promotion of the athlete's success. This is facilitated by the constant posting of statistical reports on the achievements of basketball players in individual components of the game on the wall of the gym, the creation of stands with photos of the best players and sports trophies of the team, mentions in the media about the sports achievements of individual players and teams, etc. At the same time, the coach must control the process of the formation of sports ambition and prevent it from turning into the form of sports vanity.

The optimal ratio of rewards and punishments. The most common means of increasing the motivation of players to the training process is the coach's assessment of their performance in the form of praise or disapproval. Any of these methods are more useful than the coach's markedly indifferent attitude towards a player with insufficient motivation. The issue of preferential use of praise or disapproval is decided based on the needs of a particular pedagogical situation and the player's personal characteristics, and in this sense, the behavior of the coach should be quite flexible. In addition to praise, real symbols of the players' achievements are used as an encouragement: badges, diplomas, tokens, medals, prizes, etc.

Emotionality of training sessions. It is understandable that praise or disapproval by a coach elicits an emotional reaction from the players. Thus, motives are closely related to emotions. In other words, if the training process is not emotional enough, it is difficult to maintain the necessary motivation for it.

The increase in the emotionality of the training process and the corresponding motivation for it on the part of basketball players is facilitated by the inclusion of outdoor games in the training, the competitive method of organizing exercises, the introduction of background music into certain parts of the training, the presence of spectators at individual training sessions, the encouragement of the emotional behavior of the players, the emotional behavior of the coach himself .

Development of team traditions. The formation of a close-knit team of players and team spirit is one of the important means of increasing the motivation of basketball players for the training process. When a player begins to feel that his personal efforts help to solve collective problems, he has a different attitude to the training process. The development of the team's traditions is facilitated by the unified sportswear of the players, the organization of festive rituals, for example, on the birthdays of the players or the reception of new team members, commemorative tournaments and tournaments of team veterans, festive evenings after the end of the season, etc.

Special decoration of the room for the team, as described by B. Knight, can also become a tradition.

Motivation is a year-round process. Players need to know what we expect from their games. We have a lot of slogans that we put up in the team room. One of them: "Victory loves those teams that are less likely to make mistakes." Basketball is a game of mistakes, and the team that makes fewer mistakes has the best chance of winning.

Pete Newell, who in my opinion is the best basketball coach in the world, shared this view: “Basketball is a simple game. You must hit more accurately than the opponent and make more throws. If you hit more accurately than they do, it says about your attack. If you hit more than they do, it speaks to your defense."

Another of our slogans: "Calmness and movement equals an accurate throw." I also encourage mine to read and leave materials in the locker room that I believe will help the player in their development as both a citizen and a player, motivation keeps your players doing what is necessary to play basketball successfully.

Making collective decisions. Discussing the goals and particular tasks of the training process with the team, making collective decisions on training and lifestyle issues under the guidance of a coach significantly increase the players' motivation for the training process. An excellent example of this is the experience of B. Knight.

Goals are set for the whole team, in accordance with this, static information is collected at each game, with which the players get acquainted after the end of the game, dividing it into three groups - attack, defense and general. On the side of each goal, leave a place to mark the result. If we have reached the goal, we write down the percentage in black, if not, we make a mark in red. Goals should be challenging enough, but achievable. We've maxed out at eight goals in a single game, and have averaged five goals in every game over the last two seasons.

Attack targets: field goals - 52%; free throws - 75%; losses -10%.

Objectives of defense: 1) to prevent the opponent from scoring more than 65 points per game; 2) to prevent the opponent from exceeding 42% of the effectiveness in shots from the field; 3) prevent any of the opponent's players from scoring more than 20 points; 4) force the opponent to make 214 losses.

General goals: 1) to score first in each half; 2) pick up 58% of all bounces; 3) commit no more than 16 personal fouls; 4) make 12 throws more than the opponent.

If you achieve all these goals, it will be impossible to lose. It is not enough to tell a player to play to the best of their ability. This task must be specified in numbers.

At first glance it seems that Knight is talking about a special psychological preparation for the competition. However, it is not difficult to imagine how the players begin to relate to the training process after making these kinds of collective decisions.

Personal characteristics of a coach. A strong motivating factor in the conscientious attitude of players to the training process is the personality of the coach himself.

To quote B. Knight again: “Motivation starts with the coach. We must motivate ourselves daily. I try to do this by going to every training session, counting everything from the moment I enter the court, for example, if there is any of the players that I need to reprimand in order to set them up for a good job.

Among the many characteristics of a coach's personality that help motivate players, one should first of all name confidence, exactingness, optimism and perseverance, curiosity and professional intuition.

The coach must be confident in his competence and the decisions he makes. We must remember: the fact that your team is not in the top three, and you yourself are not yet part of the coaching elite, constantly mentioned in the media, does not mean that you cannot train. Your confidence instills faith in your students.

The coach must be equally exacting (we are talking about discipline) to all players. Otherwise, he will begin to lose confidence in himself. It is good if behind his firmness the players will feel friendliness, respect for themselves. In the end, the success of the coach and the success of his students are interdependent, which is a sufficient basis for mutual respect.

Coach's optimism helps players to overcome the inevitable difficulties of the training process. Everyone understands that it's easier to be optimistic when your team is winning. If she loses, it is useful to recall the statement of Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci that 90% of their experiments ended in failure. But they were persistent, and this ultimately determined their success. Remind your students of this.

Dictionaries define curiosity as the desire to acquire new knowledge; inquisitiveness. At first glance, the coach's curiosity concerns only himself. In fact, everything in the communication between an athlete and a coach is interconnected. An inquisitive coach is always eager to learn more about the secrets of his profession. His wide erudition helps him explain to the players the patterns of the training process and the need to use certain means of training in it. Knowledge of this kind helps players to form a meaningful positive attitude towards the training process.

But it's not so much about this, but that the training process is too multifaceted, and each player is too individual to give recipes for all occasions in advance. The most necessary at the moment ways of influencing students, including to increase their motivation, the coach helps to find professional intuition, the development of which is determined, on the one hand, by practical experience, and on the other hand, by the desire to acquire new knowledge, or curiosity.

Summing up, it should be noted that, according to one of the country's leading hockey coaches V.V. Tikhonov, the final meaning of the coach's activity is not physical, technical or tactical training, but the formation of the will of the ward. And the development of the will is associated primarily with the formation of a rich motivational and semantic sphere of the players. And the coach must know how to do it.

In addition to the formation of players' motivation, the coach's task also includes the formation of a system of attitudes towards different aspects of the training process. "The system of relations determines the nature of the experiences of the individual, the peculiarities of the perception of reality, the nature of behavioral reactions to external influences." The elements of the system of players' attitudes to the training process are the attitude to sports training in general, the attitude to physical activity, the attitude to training sessions, the attitude to the sports regime.

In order to create a positive attitude of players towards sports training in general, the coach should not determine the team's starting line-up during the pre-season. It is better for him to constantly change the starting five so that the substitutes do not feel useless. According to B. Cosey, the late deadlines for determining the starting five make the entire team take a more responsible attitude to the training process.

D. Wooden advises ending each practice session on a positive note so that the coach and players look forward to the next session. If the coach and players end a session in an irritated or pessimistic state, they are unlikely to look forward to the next session and have to start under difficult conditions that might not be there.

Fear of large training loads is basically removed by good motivation. Hockey coach V.V. Tikhonov talked about the "barriers" that are built in front of each athlete and coach in his activity and which must be overcome in order to move on. His main ideas included the following provisions:

1) there are no limits in loads;

2) the idea that one should take care of oneself is wrong. As soon as the thought of “saving” oneself appears, the athlete ends there: he was unable to overcome such a barrier;

3) the athlete must strive to be in peak form all the time, avoiding a drop in form.

V.V. Tikhonov sees it in breaking the barrier of fear - the fear of burden.

D. Wooden also talked about the experience of developing positive attitudes towards large training loads through the collective acceptance of what he called “training rules”. Here are some of them: “Never think about your bruises and fatigue. If you are tired, think about how your opponent might have run out of steam”; “The condition is improved by hard training work after you are exhausted. Force yourself to work when you get tired”; "Set a goal for yourself to be in better condition than your supposed opponents." Copies of these jointly agreed rules are given to each player on the team, after which, according to Wooden, he must either agree with them or leave the team.

Practice has shown that following the principles formulated above significantly speeds up the process of transferring the nature of the team's activities from collective to joint.

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Psychological preparation of basketball players | Article in the journal "Young scientist"

Egorov, A. V. Psychological training of basketball players / A. V. Egorov. - Text: direct // Young scientist. - 2015. - No. 8 (88). — S. 428-430. — URL: https://moluch.ru/archive/88/17429/ (date of access: 30.10.2022).

Basketball is the most important means of physical education of students, aimed at increasing the working capacity and improving the psychophysical qualities of those involved. This is an exciting athletic game that contributes to the development and improvement of the physical, mental and intellectual qualities of a person; mastery of professional motor skills and abilities by players. Basketball classes instill in athletes willpower, endurance, perseverance, courage, determination, self-confidence, a sense of duty and responsibility, patriotism and collectivism.

The effectiveness of the education of these qualities depends, first of all, on how purposefully the relationship between the physical, psychological and moral education of athletes is carried out in the training process. The educational and training process in basketball is built on increasing the complexity and intensity of training sessions, acquiring special knowledge by players about the psychophysiological properties of the individual, the structure of the body and the biomechanics of human movements.

In the process of detailed preparation for a long season full of various competitions and, directly, in the lessons on the technique and tactics of the game conducted by the coach, athletes acquire the necessary professional knowledge, skills and abilities to increase the variety of individual and team technical and tactical actions of basketball players. This suggests that the key to the successful performance of a basketball team in competitions is the high sports training of players (implemented mainly in sports training), which includes all aspects of preparing athletes for a long sports season (theoretical, technical, tactical, moral-volitional and psychological). Thus, sports training is a complex specialized process aimed at the formation, development and improvement of the necessary physical, psychophysical and psychophysiological qualities of players, which has a versatile effect on athletes [1].

Basketball is a team sport that requires full dedication from each player in changing game episodes on the court; it allows you to develop endurance, good coordination of movements, flexibility, mobility and jumping ability in the game. It is an excellent school for teaching the interaction of players in a team, because success in the game depends not only on the developed eye of athletes, but also on their ability to understand the intentions and tactics of other team members. An important factor is the ability of players to make instant decisions, taking into account the game situation on the court, since the specifics of the game involve sudden changes in direction and pace, which alternate with forced jumps during shots, fighting for a top ball and attempts to cover the throw.

The main task of the coach-educator in preparation for the sports season is to gradually lead the players to optimal physical, technical, tactical and mental readiness. At this stage, psychological preparation consists in the formation of a set for competitive activity and the creation of conditions for the adaptation of players to the extreme conditions of this activity. This is due to certain features and conditions of the competition, as well as the individual mental characteristics of the personality of each athlete. Psychological preparation ensures the formation of a mental state that contributes, on the one hand, to the optimal use of the physical and technical preparedness of the players, and on the other hand, the ability to withstand pre-competitive and competitive knocking factors (uncertainty in one's abilities, fear of a possible defeat, stiffness, overexcitation, etc. .). Intensive training sessions, a tight calendar of competitions, are characterized by such high physical and mental stress that bring neuro-emotional stress to the limits of the athlete's individual capabilities. The most effective in sports activities are the means of mental rehabilitation to restore the expended nervous energy. Here it is important to reduce the level of neuropsychic tension, remove the state of mental depression, which significantly affects the acceleration of recovery processes in various organs and systems of the body.

The effectiveness of the use of psychological means of recovery is reflected in an objective assessment of the results of psychological effects on athletes in the process of psychological rehabilitation. For the formation of psychophysical resistance to various environmental conditions, it is required to form the psychological preparation of athletes by improving the motivation for sports training, creating optimal conditions for the training process. The use of psychological means of recovery in sports training makes it possible to reduce the level of neuropsychic stress, remove the state of mental depression, restore the expended nervous energy more quickly and thereby influence the acceleration of recovery processes in various systems of the player's body [4].

Psychological training includes general (year-round) preparation of players, mental preparation for competitions and management of the neuropsychic recovery of athletes. At the training sessions regularly conducted by the coach-teacher, in the process of sports training, the physical, psychophysical and moral qualities of the individual are developed and improved, contributing to the formation of mental stability of the players. The use of modern methods of training during sports training, the effective use of pedagogical and psychological means of recovery allows us to determine the professional level of the psychological and pedagogical skills of the coach-teacher, the presence of a system of knowledge and skills that allow him to successfully organize the educational and training process [2].

The effectiveness of the activity of a coach-teacher, his professionalism, lies in the correct organization of the educational and training process, which includes all aspects of the team's sports training, including educational and cultural work. His duties include:

- jointly, with the administration of the university and the chairman of the sports club, creating conditions for year-round training sessions, instilling in those involved in love for the chosen sport, interest in regular practice in the chosen sport and striving for the growth of sportsmanship;

- ensuring general and special physical training of those involved in the sports improvement group, passing control standards and tests for physical fitness and physical fitness;

- organization in a rationally built training process of systematic educational work to form such important qualities as diligence and discipline, honesty and decency, goodwill and integrity, camaraderie and mutual assistance, the ability to rationally organize one's work and introduce elements of creativity into it, a sense of responsibility for the results of their work and collectivism;

- instilling in players the skills to comply with sports ethics, principles of morality, love and devotion to their team;

- strengthening the health of those involved, their observance of the rules of personal hygiene, which includes a rational sustainable regime of an athlete, body care, hygiene of clothes and shoes, as well as control of public hygiene, training hygiene and a clear organization of medical control;

- systematic participation and holding of control and friendly games, as well as participation in calendar competitions;

- propaganda and popularization of basketball among students and teaching staff;

Basketball training sessions at the university are held in accordance with the plan of sports work for the academic year approved by the chairman of the sports club of the university. The program of the annual training cycle contains educational material, on the basis of which the planning of training sessions is based, which provides for the theoretical and practical training of players, as well as the passing of control standards. The periodization of the training process, necessary in the annual cycle, is carried out taking into account the calendar plan of the competition, which allows you to fundamentally prepare for the games and most fully solve the problems of each period of training of basketball players.

The main task of the coach-teacher in the preparatory period of the annual cycle is to prepare the basketball team for a successful performance in the upcoming competitions. The basis for the development and improvement of the physical and psychophysical qualities of those involved is the optimal physical preparation of the players, which is divided into general and special training. Therefore, the preparatory period is a basic training cycle, in which training sessions are aimed at providing general and special physical training of players and improving their sports performance. Special physical training (SPT) of basketball players is provided only on the basis of general physical training (GP). Its task is to improve the special qualities of players aimed at developing skills and consolidating the skills of playing basketball. The mastered motor actions when using special physical exercises in training sessions are an effective means of strengthening the health and restoring the mental, mental and physical strength of an athlete and can be further used in independent forms of physical exercises.

With the optimization of sports training, which consists in a gradual increase in physical and psychophysical load, the role of the coach in the psychological preparation of the players increases. During the training sessions, players are recruited into the team and their volitional qualities are developed, which ensure overcoming difficulties in the fight against fatigue in accordance with increasing physical and psycho-emotional stress. To this end, in order to improve the quality of the psychological preparation of players, the coach-teacher during training uses individual means of training aimed at developing courage and determination in combat with an opponent [3].

At the stage of pre-competitive training, further improvement of special physical and technical training takes place, mastering the tactics of playing individual players, units and the team as a whole, improving the moral-volitional, technical-tactical and psychological training of players, determining the main and reserve composition of the team. The competitive period consists of several cycles, starting with the participation of the team in competitions for the city championship, held in various tournaments, and at the end of the period, in competitions for the championship of universities held in offset of the regional sports day. In this period, special attention should be paid to creating a cohesive and well-played team, improving the technical and tactical skills of the players, maintaining and improving sports form and eliminating existing shortcomings in the team’s game, as well as further improving the strong-willed and psychological preparation of the team.

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