Decision-making and its relationship to some basic offensive skills in female students’ basketball

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify the degree of decision-making and its relationship to some basic offensive skills in basketball for female students, as decision-making is an individual’s ability to reach a solution to an objectionable problem or a confusing situation, by choosing a solution from existing or innovative alternatives, and this choice depends on the information that the individual has collected about The problem depends on the values, habits, experience, education, and individual skills. The game of basketball is characterized by the presence of many changing situations during the match. It is a struggle of decisions between the attacking player, who makes a decision to end the attack correctly, and the defensive player, who must make a quick decision to confront the attacker and prevent him from implementing his decision and thwarting the attack. Try to implement. Through the experience of the two researchers, this problem has crystallized in the presence of a deficiency in decision-making for fourth-stage female students, which is reflected in their performance in playing. The research problem lies in the following question: Is decision-making related to some basic offensive skills in basketball for female students, as the researchers hypothesized the existence of a correlation between decision-making and Decision and some basic offensive skills in basketball for female students. The researchers also adopted the descriptive approach in the style of survey study and correlational relationships. The research community was represented by fourth-year female students in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Woman / University of Baghdad for the academic year 2022-2023, who numbered (83) students. A sample was chosen. The number of students was (30) and (3) female students for the exploratory experiment from the research community. The decision-making scale and tests of basic offensive skills in basketball were adopted. The results were also extracted using appropriate statistical treatments from the (SPSS) program, and the results were presented, analyzed and discussed, according to the results. The conclusions were reached: Most female students have a good level of decision-making and basic offensive skills in basketball, and there is a direct relationship between decision-making and basic offensive skills in basketball for female students. The researchers also recommend conducting a study that addresses the relationship between the variables of the current research and some other variables. The two researchers also suggest conducting a similar study on students, advanced players, youth, and juniors for various events.