20.500.12556/DiRROS-25096 Investigating the effect of playing different defensive styles and court sizes on physical, perceived, and technical demands in basketball small-sided games This study aimed to determine the effects of different defensive styles (i.e., man-to-man vs. zone) and court sizes (full vs. half) on physical [PlayerLoadTM (PL), total jumps and jumps in low (<20 cm), medium (21–40 cm), and high (>41 cm) bands, the number of and distance covered during accelerations and decelerations divided in high (>2 m∙s−2) and low intensity (<2 m∙s−2) bands], perceived [rating of perceived exertion (RPE)] and technical (total, scored, missed and % of made shots, rebounds, steals, assists, turnovers, and blocks) demands during basketball small-sided games (SSGs). Ten semi-professional male basketball players (age: 20.4 ± 2.1 years; stature: 189.4 ± 8.1 cm; body mass: 77.4 ± 8.4 kg) from the same basketball team participated in this study. Players were asked to play four 5 vs. 5 SSG typologies in randomized order: 1) half-court man-to-man defense, 2) half-court zone defense, 3) full-court man-to-man defense, and 4) full-court zone defense. No significant interaction (p > 0.05) between two independent variables was observed for physical demands. An effect of court size was found for most of the physical demand measures (except jumps) with higher values (p < 0.05) found in full court SSGs. The defensive style had an effect (p < 0.05, trivial-to-small) on total distance and low-intensity accelerations and decelerations. No effects were evident for the independent variables on the RPE and technical demands. Coaches should design full court SSGs when aiming at increasing players’ physical demands. Differently, similar physical, perceived and technical demands should be expected when playing man-to-man or zone defense during SSGs. external load internal load game-based conditioning drills game-related statistics zunanja obremenitev notranja obremenitev vadbene naloge na osnovi igre statistika igre true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-01-09 13:39:55 2026-01-09 13:39:56 2026-01-10 03:48:53 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 str. 201-211 Vol. 96 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 796.3 1640-5544 10.5114/jhk/202929 263803907 26_01_263803907.pdf 26_01_263803907.pdf 1 14A4C6E54A604DC3789A121FE66E0865 81e873473165579d437e13a722b63a22da326e875b4a9c72b191c81fee69ba26 575447ff-ed58-11f0-94a7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=37760 26_01_238466819.pdf 26_01_238466819.pdf 1 8EC36C392A4D847FBFEB58CAE8F13790 304ec74e2803434234b8958bf97036cae4b18427ece758ab8af81ab1ce52061f 4c9ca73c-ed5a-11f0-94a7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=37761 Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper / Centro di Ricerche Scientifiche Capodistria 0 0 0