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Check your resting heart rate, if it's elevated or higher than normal you might be overtrained. I'm not saying this is common, but it could happen. Depends on how much work you do.
I can't think of...

yeah, and you don't need to be strong for football, basketball, soccer?
give me a break!
you come here ask for opinion, you get some good answers and then write some stupid answer.

Man, you...

If you don't play any sport and are basically offseason then 5X5 is the way to go. It's more stressfull and recovery demanding but with some plyometrics in it it will give you great results.

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Yeah, it's possible. Your goal should be to avoid strength loss, or minimize it. If you're novice lifter and don't have great squat numbers you could stay at your strength level due to nervous...

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You need to check your diet first, if you eat to much you wont lose fat. You must eat slightly less then needed to maintain your weight. You can find calculators online that can estimate...

That's fine, just do these jumps before squats.
And definitely start very light with jump squats, maybe unloaded for few weeks, then add some low percentage of your squat max, 10-15%. You must...

Yeah! The recovery day is just that, light squats and maybe some sled walking if you have access to those, just to promote recovery. You should feel fresh before plyometric training.

Vertical jump bible is great book, very well written and pretty easy to understand. You can never go wrong with following some of the programs in there. Strength part of the program is based on block...

You can do explosive stuff every time when you squat.

Let's put it this way:

week 1-4

volume day
box jumps 5X4
squats 5X5

Ofcourse it did, strength will give you an edge, but skill is the most important factor. You must develop your skills as much as you can.
Starting strength is the first workout everyone should do...

Exactly like you wrote in your first post. You can always put some explosive plyometric stuff, or oly lifts, jump squats first in your workout, before actual squats. It can also serve as great...

This is a wrong approach. If you want to gain strength in squat and want to squat twice a week then use some proven strategy that have you squat twice a week.
First check out madcow 5X5! You squat...

You need to practise your sport, basketball. You don't get ready by playing pick up games. You get better by practising your sport. Practising game like situations, passing, driblling, finishing. You...

It means per leg. Both legs must be worked if it's unilateral exercise.
For the strength part, I'd follow kellys programs too. This is classic block periodization where you achieve your peak at the...

Precentages are here for guys like you. I'm sure Kelly knows that you can squat 10-15 times with 70% of your max.
There is a purpose for that approach. You must begin with light weight so you can...

Well, you can't know it because you don't know at which rate he'll gain explosiveness or rate of force development compared to fat gain. If this fat gain gets really excessive then the weaker guy...

probably!

This question is pretty easy to answer, you can't know it. Sure there are some things that can be said immediately, carrying any extra fat will slowyou down, definitely etc.

But, when it comes to...

Guys I really don't know why this bodybuilding myths still exsists in sport performance training. I mean, this is just one component of training for a basketball palyer, and you don't need one or two...

Your definitely in caloric deficit if you weigh 185 and train that frequently and with described intensity. You should keep that caloric intake for few weeks and see what happens, maybe get it down...