Some Manifestations of Attention According to the HRP System and its Relationship to the Accuracy of the Shooting Performance from the Free Throw in Basketball for Junior Players

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identifying the degree of some aspects of attention (attention volume, attention focus, attention distribution) according to the HRP system and its relationship to the accuracy of performance from the free throw in basketball for junior players. The researchers used the descriptive approach due to its suitability to the nature of the problem, the objectives and the overall study as the research sample consisted of 12 players from the Adhamiya Sports Club, the Cubs category, for ages under (14) years for the year 2022/2023, where they were chosen in a deliberate way from the community of origin represented by the Baghdad clubs who have cubs players participating in the Iraqi Basketball Association tournaments .The researchers used the attention battery test on the HRP system, which includes attention volume, attention focus, and attention distribution. As well as the shooting test from the free throw in basketball. The results of the study showed that there was a positive correlation between the degree of attention concentration and the volume of attention with the skill of shooting from the free throw in basketball, and an inverse correlation between the distribution of attention and shooting from the free throw in basketball for junior players.