United States Sports Academy - "America's Sports University"

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the preferential individual offensive strategies of male Taiwanese collegiate students. A self-designed questionnaire was utilized to evaluate students' perception on offensive strategies. Subjects were asked to select top-5 preferential strategies from nine choices as they were put at specific spots based on the role of a position. Among the 185 completed surveys, the number of valid surveys was 163 that yielded a 78% return-rate. The statistical methods for analyses included descriptive statistics and Chi-square analyses. The alpha level was set at .05. Based on the results of Chi-square, there were significant differences existed among subjects' choices on offensive strategies (p<0.05). No significant differences (p<0.05) were found when subjects' choices were compared at different side of blocks. The descriptive analyses indicated that the number-one offensive choice at the both sides of low post area for center, power forward, and point guard were "pivoting", "screening", and "catching the ball", respectively. The favorite offensive strategies of small forward and shooting guard were "catching the ball" and "getting open" at the right block, and their choices were simply switched at the other block. At the top of the key, the number-one offensive choice for center, power forward, small forward, shooting guard and point guard were "setting screen", "pivoting", "getting open", "getting open", and "catching the ball", respectively. Apparently, subjects' top-three choices on offensive strategies had clearly demonstrated the common mentalities that were instructed by many basketball coaches. However, since "shooting" was not a top-3 choice at any spot for any role, coaches may need to encourage students to take more shots.