Relevance of the topic. Lithuania is not a large country and sports talents are not emerging very often. It does not depend on the social or economic situation of the country (Schnabel et al., 1994; Cedaro, 2000; Carling et al., 2009). When giving the opportunity for the talent to achieve positive results in sports, the talented personalities have to be selected, the purposeful training program has to be concluded as well as the monitoring of the practical implementation of the program has to be performed (Regnier et al., 1993; Durand-Bush, Salmela, 2001; Abernethy, 2008; Vaeyens et al., 2008; Bailey et al., 2010; Burgess, Naughton, 2010; Philips et al., 2010; Ford et al., 2011). Therefore it is very important that the training of the athletes has to be conceptualized, so a small quantity of the talented athletes is developed as optimally as possible. Inaccurate training system prevents the athletes from revealing their own potential. Thus, only the consistent sports training system shall stimulate a more rapid improvement of the sports results, as it is harder to identify a talent than to develop it (Balyi, Hamilton, 1999; Raslanas, 2001; Malina et al., 2004; Balyi, Williams, 2009; Stafford, 2010). It was considered for a long time that success in sports depends solely on the athletes, who are physically strong and developed tactically (Krasilshchikov, 2011), however, due to increase of the competition between athletes (De Bosscher et al., 2006) and major political and... [to full text] / Temos aktualumas. Lietuva – nedidelė valstybė, kurioje sporto talentai iškyla ne taip dažnai. Tai nepriklauso nuo šalies socialinės ar ekonominės padėties (Schnabel et al., 1994; Cedaro, 2000; Carling et al., 2009). Norint išugdyti talentingą sportininką, siekiantį didelių sportinių rezultatų, reikia atrinkti gabias asmenybes, sudaryti kryptingą rengimo programą ir nuosekliai ją įgyvendinti praktikoje (Regnier et al., 1993; Durand-Bush, Salmela, 2001; Abernethy, 2008; Vaeyens et al., 2008; Bailey et al., 2010; Burgess, Naughton, 2010; Philips et al., 2010; Ford et al., 2011). Todėl labai aktualu konceptualizuoti sportininkų rengimą ir taikyti optimalius talentingų sportininkų ugdymo metodus. Netiksli rengimo sistema neleidžia sportininkams iki galo atskleisti savo galimybių, o nuosekli sportinio rengimo sistema gali paspartinti sportinių rezultatų gerėjimą, padėti atrasti talentą ir jį išugdyti (Balyi, Hamilton, 1999; Raslanas, 2001; Malina et al., 2004; Balyi, Williams, 2009; Stafford, 2010). Daugelį metų buvo manoma, kad didelių sportinių laimėjimų gali pasiekti tik fiziškai stiprūs ir gerai taktiškai pasirengę sportininkai (Krasilshchikov, 2011), tačiau vis didėjant konkurencijai tarp sportininkų (De Bosscher et. al., 2006) ir stiprėjant sporto sektoriaus politinei bei komercinei reikšmei (Green, Oakley, 2001) kyla būtinybė kurti kiekvienos sporto šakos daugiamečio rengimo programas (Balyi, Hamilton, 2004; Balyi, Williams, 2009; Stafford, 2010). Jaunųjų sportininkų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

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SUMMARY Interplay compatibility and trust of players is very important in a team game. Self-confidence of basketball players is analyzed in this work. It is very important for a player and for a coach. The main aim is to display peculiarities of teams’ self-confidence using survey. Tasks are to determine the level of basketball players’ self-confidence, to evaluate components of their self-confidence and to explore self-confidence in contest. For investigation these basketball clubs were surveyed: “Žalgiris” from Kaunas, “Žalgiris – Sabonio mokykla (Dubleriai)”, “LKKA – Atletas I” and “LKKA – Atletas II”. Three survey methods were used: evaluation scale of self-confidence level according J.J. Kiseliov, evaluation of self-confidence in contest according R.Martens, evaluation of components of sportive self-confidence according P.Kelly. Exploratory part consisted of 50 basketball players. We can’t exclude teams in which prevail more or less self-confidence, but team “LKKA –Atletas I” is more self-confident than other surveyed teams. So, hypothesis based on made statistical calculations wasn’t prove out that basketball players self-confidence depend on their mastery.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has recently come under scrutiny from media and fans due to the perception that some franchises are losing games on purpose in an attempt to win a higher draft pick. While researchers have concluded tanking does exist in the NBA, this is the first paper to analyze the strategy’s success in terms of generating increases in future winning percentage or future franchise value. This paper, through panel data regressions controlling for fixed effects for 21 seasons, has found that tanking does have a large impact on future winning percentage. A team that tanks typically sees a significant increase in wins of approximately 9.87 games between the 2nd and 4th year after the team tanked. These results have large implications for the league as the NBA recently began draft reform discussions to reduce the incentive to tank. This paper validates the leagues’ belief that draft reform must occur as tanking can give an unfair advantage in future years.

The program for the 1955 4th Annual Holiday Basketball Festival of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) featuring San Francisco, Duquesne, Fordham, Holy Cross, UCLA, La Salle, St. John's, and Syracuse at Madison Square Garden.

Program from the February 1955 game at Dayton. The full roster of the Dukes with individual player photographs can be found on page #5, pdf page 7 of 20.

The team in post-game celebration with the NIT trophy. Coach Dudey Moore rides the shoulders of Sihugo Green on the right and Dick Ricketts on the left.

Photo of Dick Ricketts going up for a layup against Dartmouth.

Photo of Dick Ricketts in game action.