Perkos, Theodorakis, & Chroni (2002) during the study 62 young and novice players stated that the IST can beused as an appropriate tool for skills with less complexity. Tsiggilis et al. (2003) investigate the effect IST on selfconfidenceand performance skills in handball throwing on 46 physical education students and stated were not anysignificant difference between IST and control groups in their performance of skill and self-confidence confidence.Goudas, Hatzidimitriou, & Kikidi (2006) during the study investigated the effects of three types instructional,motivational and kinetic self-talk on skills performance. The results showed that all three types of self-talk improvedamateur athletes' performance in throwing skill. Hatzigeorgiadis (2006) studied the perception of participantsregarding the use of IST and MST after applying a three-day self-talk training program in a swimming task. Basedon the perception of participants, both motivational and instructional was helped to improve their attention towardthe task. In a similar experiment Hatzigeorgiadis, Zourbanos, & Theodorakis (2007) stated IST more than MST toimprove performance of the accuracy task, while MST improved power task only.Chroni, Theodorakis, & Perkos (2007) were investigated effectiveness of IST and MST on the perception of 38novice players in basketball skills. The athletes confirmed to use MST in dribble and the shoot and none ofinterventions is not priority the other in pass. Tod et al (2009) were analyzed effect of motivational and IST onperformance and vertical jump kinematics. Their results show self-talk had the positive effects than control groupsignificantly.The purpose of this research was survey of effectiveness of instructional and motivational self-talk onperformance of basketball's motor skill.