How to Motivate Basketball Players Term Paper

Motivate N.B.A basketball players

The game of basketball, primarily, involves the continuous struggle of the teams for about 45 minutes in defending their sides, while striking the ball at the demarcated floor, hanging on and throwing efficiently to the basket. The team success is intensified through reducing their faults and making the opponent team to commit errors. Contrary to the game of football, basketball seems to involve many such faults. The opponent team gains scores when the ball is turned over, when a free throw is misdirected, when the team members commit personal errors and leaves the buckets, etc. Giving away opportunities to opponent teams to gain the scores easily mark the failure of the team. (Trace Fields Basketball Handicapping Techniques) Even though it has been laid down that the seasonal success of NBA is determined by victory at least in one championship however, most of the team members of the league fail to achieve the target every year. (O'Donnell, 2004) It is expected of the players to have confidence on the team members and play as a team with full throttle.

Except Memphis Grizzlies, NBA could not exhibit remarkable success in this season. The seasons dominated by Grizzlies provides enough justification for the attraction towards NBA. The movement of Grizzlies to Memphis and victory over Bryant "Big County" Reeves at the first phase is yet not seen as remarkable in comparison to their performance during 1995. The Grizzlies are always avoiding the necessities for a good alteration. Michael Heisley necessitated the Hall-of-Fame players and invited Jerry West to be the team executive for its operation. With many persuasions West at last agreed to the offer and could able to persuade Hubie Brown, a 69-year TV analyst, to leave the job and coach the team. In the couple of years both West and Brown could lead to the team to achieve the demarcation of 50-win season. (Amico, 2004)

West and Brown thus succeeded in changing the indifferent attitude of their fans resulted out of an easy victory by the San Antonio in the first round. The Grizzlies missed four matches. Out of them there was a possibility of winning only one and the rest were severe defeats. However, such performances could not deter their fans to extend standing applause to the team in the finals. Brown could not resist from blowing kisses at the end of the final game. Every member of the Spurs congratulated Brown and his team on their success in the series. Such an attachment is not seen in the sphere of professional sports, however, the sports deserves it. The Memphis Grizzlies has become an exemplary team and become an inspiration to other NBA teams to be followed. (Amico, 2004)

But in terms of the parameters fixed for assessing the performances it could be evident that almost none in the NBA could achieve the distinction of 7.4 points per game. Maintenance of the career of percentages of.387 from floor and the.632 from the free throw line is not seen among the NBA players for more than a couple seasons. Even though the performance in Basketball is determined by the performance of the team as a whole, the individual endowment and dexterity is important. Even though the whole team is singing the same song the contribution of each member in bringing an improvement of the melody is an important factor. The performance of the team itself is required to be well ordered as a whole. It is essential that the players should know about their particular positions, their strategies of offence or defense, the roles and responsibilities they are performing, the position of opponent players and their performances, etc. Such information is necessary for better coordination of the actions of the players and taking collective decisions. However orderliness and team spirit grants enough liberty to the individual players for perfection of their skills and talents in the dimensions of spontaneous, imaginative and creative. Since the youngsters are fond of playing and better playing they are keen on learning. (Background to Bee Ball)

The knowledge of the magnitude of their learning fetches them self-satisfaction and pleasure. Master of the sports skills and self-reliance are considered as key elements for success in sports. Analyses have been made and revealed that the sportspersons having confident on the sports demonstrate activities of better concentration, better approaches to the game, healthy emotions, management of anxiety and performance. The psychologists concentrating on sports find it worthwhile to make study and prove into the basic relationship between the sports confidence and successful performance.However, sports confidence is not a conflicting and transient variable. The factors influencing confidence therefore call upon the sports confidence during a period of time and make it inconsistent. Enough studies have been made to find out the revelations of the impact of sports confidence on the perception, emotion and activities of the athlete. (Eric, 2003) tactful analysis of the various factors of confidence necessitated analysis of the interrelationship of foundation, organization and the behavior of the athletes. The competitive spirit in the sports demonstrates the circumstances for fostering the expertise and performance. The question arises as to what is the means of attaining confidence by the athletes. In the arena of sports psychology, the Achievement Goal Theory in relations to social perceptions is a widely accepted representation in the field. The past analysis in the sphere of Achievement Goal Theory reveals that the task-oriented approach has a long way in achieving the desired motivation and confidence among the athletes. An interrelationship between the guidance to achieve the objective and enhanced sport confidence is being perceived. It is evident that the motivation of the athletes towards achieving the goals is positively correlated to their sports confidence. Conversely, by emphasizing on skill development in the process of learning and competition the athletes are said to develop their sport confidence. (Eric, 2003)

An analysis of the behaviors of 620 secondary school and post secondary school athletes for both the sexes have been made by Shane in order to probe into the interrelationship between the goal orientation and sports confidence. His analysis revealed that the male and female athletes demonstrated a quite different picture of goal orientation in relations to its determinants of skill perfection, skill exposure, and physical as well as psychic readiness etc. There exist also a difference between the sports confidence of the secondary and post secondary school athletes among both the sexes. Several analysis have revealed that persons emphasizing on task oriented approach also exhibit a higher level of perception, higher level of self-perceived ability and a positive attachment. Recognition of their self-skills and increased self-confidence has profound impact on the sports confidence of the athlete as well as their performance. On this basis therefore, generalizations can therefore be made that the emotions, levels of perception and activities of the athletes still influence their confidence levels. (Eric, 2003)

Anger has been a vital question to be handled with NBA players. Among them, two of the key players who let loose their rage on the Blazers were exceptionally gifted, however, annoyed forward player Rasheed Wallace and hotheaded custodian Bonzi Wells. Within the NBA team, Rasheed Wallace is considered as one of the extremely brilliant player manning the forward position, but his uncontrolled anger is stopping him from being formally ranked in the respectable upper echelons of brilliance. Many people possibly know Wallace for making and surpassing his own record of technical infringements during in a particular season of the NBA. A technical infringement is called as such when any of the umpires senses that a player has lost his control due to any of the reasons stated below and a lot further: disputing a call, hurling abuses at the referee, deliberately injuring an opponent player or giving a hard look at the umpire. During the 2001 season, Wallace established an all time NBA record with 41 technical infringements and 7 ousting. He surpassed his own record from the previous year and prior to that the infamous Dennis Rodman held the record. (What does poor anger management by NBA players mean in larger society?)

The behavior of Wallace while playing, as regards regulating his wrath are by far apparent through his popular shrieking and his blaring voice which at several occasions is further than the usual commemorative performance of an excellent match. Brawl with the umpires generally drags him into problems. Wallace's rage at umpires seems to be more than the 48 minutes on the court. Frank Hughes of ESPN.com gave an account that Wallace at some occasion stated an undisclosed player that he dislikes umpires. During the 2002-2003 seasons, Wallace extremely overreacted. The effects of their annoyance and wrath impacted their earnings, which are a concern to them. Generally while NBA players loose their cool, while playing or not, they are liable to be penalized or disallowed in subsequent games. Sometimes there are huge penalties, more than $25,000, and some of them could mount to quite a hundred thousand dollars.….....