Ribeiro Júnior, Dilson BorgesVianna, Jeferson MacedoLauria, André de AssisCoelho, Emerson FilipinoWerneck, Francisco Zacaron2019-10-312019-10-312019RIBEIRO JÚNIOR, D. B. et al. Sports potential modeling of young basketball players: a preliminary analysis. Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, Florianópolis, v. 21, p. 1-12, 2019. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-00372019000100323&tlng=en>. Acesso em: 29 out. 2019.1980-6183http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/11788The aims of this study were: 1) to evaluate the sports potential of young basketball players; 2) to identify variables that discriminate sports potential assessed by coaches; 3) to verifythe relationship between classification of the multidimensional profile of athletes and classification of the sports potential by coaches. Sixty-two young basketball players aged 15.6±1.1 years from U-15 (n = 24) and U-17 (n = 38) categories participated in the study. A test battery was applied to evaluate sports potential indicators: 1) anthropometric; 2) physicomotor; 3) psychological;4) skills;5) socio-environmental;6) maturational and 7) sports potential.Clusteranalysis was performed in three groups: high, medium and low potential. Student’s t-test was used for the comparison between athletes evaluated by the coach as excellent and the others and the Chi-Square test to verify the relationship between sports potential classifications. It was observed that in the high-potential group, athletes were chronologically older, with higher % predicted adult height (PMS), competitive and determined sports orientation, higher body size, lower skinfold summation, and greater physicomotor performance. In comparison with other athletes, high-potential basketball players presented higher stature, wider wingspan,longer limb length, greater predicted adult stature and higher Z score of the % PMS. It could be concluded that the multidimensional approach was useful for the evaluation of the sports potential of young basketball players, requiring the use of multidimensional variables, in addition to coaches’ opinion regarding the potential of their athletes.en-USabertoBasketballTalent identificationSportsBasquetebolEsportesArtigo publicado em periodicoThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. Fonte: o próprio artigo.http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-0037.2019v21e59832