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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Physiol.
Sec. Exercise Physiology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1447343
This article is part of the Research Topic Optimizing Player Health, Recovery, and Performance in Basketball-Volume II View all 11 articles

The Impact of Simulated 3x3 Tournament on Vertical Jump Force-Time Metrics in National Team Male Basketball Players

Provisionally accepted
Dimitrije Cabarkapa Dimitrije Cabarkapa 1*Jelena Aleksic Jelena Aleksic 2Darko Krsman Darko Krsman 3Damjana V. Cabarkapa Damjana V. Cabarkapa 1Nicolas M. Philipp Nicolas M. Philipp 1Andrew C. Fry Andrew C. Fry 1
  • 1 University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States
  • 2 University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 3 International Strength and Conditioning Institute, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

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    With innovative portable force plate systems being widely implemented for lower-body neuromuscular performance assessment in an applied sports setting and the existing gap in the scientific literature regarding player performance during in-game competitive scenarios, the purpose of the present study was to compare changes in countermovement vertical jump (CVJ) performance pre-post a simulated 3x3 basketball tournament. Seven current or former members of a 3x3 national basketball team volunteered to participate in the present investigation. Upon completing standardized warm-up procedures, athletes stepped on a uni-axial force plate system sampling at 1000 Hz and performed three maximal-effort CVJs with no arm swing. Then, the athletes proceeded to play a simulated 3x3 basketball tournament composed of two consecutive games, separated by a 15-minute rest interval. Immediately following the completion of the second game, the identical CVJ testing procedures were repeated. Paired sample t-tests were used to examine pre-post-tournament differences in nineteen CVJ performance metrics (p<0.05). The results reveal that force-time metrics during both eccentric and concentric phases of the CVJ remain relatively unchanged pre-post simulated 3x3 basketball tournament. However, multiple force-time metrics within the eccentric phase of the CVJ changed by 12.1-19.1% (e.g., eccentric peak power and peak velocity, eccentric duration), suggesting that the eccentric phase of CVJ might be responsive to performance stimulus to a greater extent than the concentric phase. Overall, these findings further support the importance of comprehensive CVJ analysis when intending to measure changes in neuromuscular performance.

    Keywords: force, power, concentric, eccentric, athlete monitoring, Biomechanics, Sport

    Received: 11 Jun 2024; Accepted: 26 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Cabarkapa, Aleksic, Krsman, Cabarkapa, Philipp and Fry. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Dimitrije Cabarkapa, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States

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