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Background. Cognitive control processes include a broad class of mental operations including goal or context representation and maintenance, and strategic processes such as attention allocation and stimulus-response mapping. Cognitive control is associated with a wide range of processes and is not restricted to a particular cognitive domain. Aims. The aims for this research are the following: 1. Applying the MGM-15 Jumping Carpet test at the beginning and at the end of the research, 2. Apply a practical basketball passing speed test; 3. Using four sessions of full body roll. Methods. The methods used: 1. the MGM-15 Jumping Carpet Test(Hardware and Software), 2. Basketball passing test, 3. Full body rolls sessions. Results. The results span at the initial test between the values of 2.26 and 10.61 for the Energetic Variability Coefficient. For the final test the values for the same coefficient span between 2.09 and 9.81. Conclusions. Considering that the improvement of the values from the first test was between 0.9 and –0.9 the reality is that the final test results were very close to the initial test values, with only one or two exceptions. Even though this research didn’t came out with any concrete data to show the importance of full body rolls in improving the cognitive control over basketball technique, it opens the way to a further and much deeper research into the wonderful domain of human mind and it’s effect over the abilities of the human body.

Key words: basketball, physical education, sport, psychology, cognitive control