## 4 Discussion  
The aims of the present study were twofold: (a) to profile elite basketball players in different local strength and range of motion asymmetries of hip and trunk region, global power asymmetries in horizontal and vertical jumping and (b) to quantify the relationship of these asymmetries with COD performance. Results showed different magnitudes of asymmetries among tests, body regions, and parameters. Regarding the magnitude of asymmetry scores reported in this study, largest asymmetries were found in hip RTD (10.72-40.35%), which were significantly larger (except internal rotation) than peak force asymmetries of different hip action (3.68-11.52%) (as shown in Table 2). Compared to local peak torque asymmetries, rate of torque development showed to be a more sensitive parameter for assessment of asymmetries. That is in accordance with findings of [PERSON] et al. (2019), who reported that the RTD showed larger magnitudes of asymmetries than peak torque during unilateral isometric knee flexion and extension. To our knowledge, only one study profiled hip strength ratios in professional athletes using fixed point dynamometer ([PERSON] et al., 2019). Although study was done on Australian football players, it detected similar results in flexion/extension mean ratio (0.8) as our study (1.3). Moreover, their mean internal/external ratio was 1.15 which is in accordance to our values (1.13 and 1.18 for left and right leg). They observed a hip adductor/abductor ratio of 1.05 which is much different from our abduction/adduction ratios (1.08 and 1.07), such differences can be attributed to sport specificity of ball kicking in Australian football. Our results are also showing various magnitudes in hip range of motion asymmetries (5.91-13.54%), with largest being found for extension (12.80 \(\pm\) 10.95%), internal rotation (13.54 \(\pm\) 10.57%), and external rotation (13.00 \(\pm\) 14.10%). Although some research indicates that there are significant differences in hip ROM between the dominant and non-dominant leg in football players ([PERSON] et al., 2019), a direct comparison of results is limited because authors have not reported asymmetry indexes. Mean asymmetry in functional leg length was 0.76 \(\pm\) 0.62%. To our knowledge, studies that assessed asymmetries in anthropometry had not used the functional leg length to investigate the \begin{table}
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**Hip Strength Ratio** & **Left Leg Mean \(\pm\) SD** & **Right Leg Mean \(\pm\) SD** & \(p\)**-Value** & **Effect Size** \\ \hline Extension/Flexion & \(1.32\pm 0.33\) & \(1.30\pm 0.25\) & 0.779 & 0.00 \\ Abduction/Adduction & \(1.08\pm 0.19\) & \(1.07\pm 0.20\) & 0.826 & 0.00 \\ Internal/External Rotation & \(1.13\pm 0.27\) & \(1.18\pm 0.26\) & 0.218 & 0.03 \\ \hline \multicolumn{4}{c}{SD = standard deviation} \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: Hip strength ratio differences between left and right leg (Mann–Whitney U test). \begin{table}
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**Depended Variable** & **Independent Variable** & **B** & **Beta** & **R\({}^{2}\)** & \(p\)**-Value** \\ \hline T-test (s) & - & - & - & 0.48 & \(<\)0.001 \\ - & Left hip internal/external rotation strength ratio & \(-1.08\) & \(-0.58\) & - & 0.00 \\ - & Asymmetry in hip abduction RTD (\%) & \(-0.02\) & \(-0.38\) & - & 0.01 \\ - & Asymmetry in hip flexion ROM (\%) & 0.03 & 0.32 & - & 0.03 \\ - & Asymmetry in functional leg length (\%) & 0.25 & 0.31 & - & 0.02 \\ - & Asymmetry in SLTJ (\%) & 0.06 & 0.29 & - & 0.04 \\ - & Asymmetry in peak force during trunk lateral flexion (\%) & 0.01 & 0.27 & - & 0.05 \\ \hline \end{tabular} RTD—rate of torque development; ROM—range of motion; SLTJ—single-leg triple jump.  
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Table 5: Final regression model with six independent variables (dependent T-test). relationship with performance instead, they had utilized other anthropometric measurements, such as knee and ankle joint width [33] or lean mass asymmetry [34]. Although, there is no past research to compare our results with, a review of [PERSON] et al.