Some mental skills and their relationship to shooting accuracy in basketball among students of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at Al-Kut University College

Abstract

The game of basketball is one of the fast-paced organized sports games that require mental skills in performing most of its basic skills due to the peculiarity of this game in the smallness of its field and the nature of the short and fast movements of the ball and the players alike. Also, the smallness of the basketball goal requires the player to possess mental skills such as focusing attention. And sensory-motor perception so that he can learn and master the basic skills of this game and control its performance. This study comes to identify the type of relationship between some mental skills and their relationship to shooting accuracy in basketball among students of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at Kut University College, where the researcher used the descriptive approach. In the method of correlational relationships to achieve the goal of the research, the tests approved in this study were applied to a sample of students from the fourth stage / Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at Kut University College, and the results showed that there is a weak correlation between the level of concentration of attention and the skill of accuracy of shooting basketball among the members of the research sample. There is a significant correlation between sensory-motor perception and the skill of shooting accuracy with basketball among members of the research sample. The researcher recommended paying attention to developing focus of attention because it is of great importance in performing many of the basic skills in sports that are taught within the curricula of colleges of physical education.