TOP3 Europos merginų jaunimo komandų greito puolimo analizė

The aim of this study was to identify and evaluate FB‘s situational variables of TOP3 European women’s youth national teams. Problem. Lithuanian women‘s basketball is no longer among elite European teams in all age categories. FB offense implementation in our youth team‘s performance can become a positive momentum. Objectives. To identify and evaluate set offense and FB offense numbers, FB initiation, advance and completion stage situational variables of TOP3 European and Lithuanian U16, U18 and U20 women‘s youth national team‘s. The razed hypotheses were: 1) Fast break is initiated most of the times by defensive rebound. 2) Primary break is more frequent and effective FB‘s phase than secondary break. 3) Players finish FB action more often in superiority structure than in inferiority or equal. Methods. Research was made within FIBA women’s youth Eurobasket 2019 tournaments of U16, U18 and U20 age categories. According final tournament standing, three best teams and Lithuanian team of each category were chosen for analysis. 77 games of 11 teams were analyzed. Game video analysis was made using “BasketMap” and “Longomatch” sport scouting program. For the analysis we registered total offense and fast break offense number, fast break initiation actions (by defensive rebound, by steal, by out-of-bounds and by block-shot), fast break advance corridors (wing and center), fast break’s phases (primary and secondary break), completing players structure and position, finishing shot type. Mathematical statistical method to calculate the indicators to summarize and compare the different results: the arithmetic mean, standard deviations, differences between the European TOP3 teams and Lithuanian teams were calculated using Student’s paired t-Test, with a two-tailed distribution. The statistical significance was set at p