PROCEDURE - Immediately upon reporting for practice the
players submitted themselves for the test. One hour later the same
players were given the test again. At the close of practice the players
were tested again. This showed the effect of fatigue upon muscular
steadiness,

RESULTS - The data collected in this investigation consists
of the daily record made in steadiness and the record of both free throws
and field goal shooting. The publication of all this data necessitates
considerable space, and as our main interest was in the relationship ex-
isting between muscular steadiness and shooting ability only averages will
be included in this paper, together with correlations.

TABLE I STABILITY RECORD

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TABLE II SCORING AVERAGES

 

 

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The criterian of the part muscular steadiness or lack of
steadiness playes in shooting ability is the correlation coefficient ex-
isting between steadiness and scoring effeciency. In Table III are the
correlation coefficients between the different stimulus situations and
scoring ability. These correlations indicate that there is a significent
relationship between the changes in muscular steadiness of the basketball
Player and his scoring efficiency.

TABLE IIT CORRELATIONS

 

 

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Scrimmage Field Goals ~...-..-------- 47 23 12
Practice Field Goals = - 29 92
Practice Free Throws..----.---------- 53 33 34

Average Scoring Games and Practice -. 3g 43 37

CONCLUSIONS - There are great individual differences in
both mormal steadiness and changes in steadiness resulting from exercise.
There is a definite relationship between steadiness and
scoring ability.