El desarrollo de la pericia en baloncesto : claves para la formación del jugador de alto rendimiento

The development of the skill in basketball: keys for the formation process of the high performance player Recent research studies have shown the difficulty of predicting future results based on traditional mechanisms in talent detection. As a consequence, studies focused on expertise development have been conducted. The aim is to know in detail the sports path of those who have achieved great success (experts) in order to try to adapt it to the new promising sportspeople. This approach focuses more on talent care than on talent detection. In the present research we have compared the sports paths of 7 international active basketball players with the aim of providing more knowledge on the high performance player formation process. Through the qualitative analysis of the interviews, a model of expertise development has been created, where the complex interaction of the context, the practice and motivations in the formation process of the high performance player are observed.