About Dribbling

There was a Canadian man name Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the men Christian Association training school. He was trying to keep his gym class to stay active while it was raining that day at school, so he decided to think of some indoor activity that his class could do, then he finally came up the basic rules and nailed a peach basket to a10-foot 3.0m elevated track. The Peach basket had its bottom still so you had to get the ball out of the basket manually this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed, allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time. They use to play basketball with a soccer ball back in that time,These round balls from association football were made, at the time, with a set of laces to close off the hole needed for inserting the inflatable bladder after the other sewn-together segments of the ball's cover had been flipped outside-in. The laces in the ball would cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Sometime later on they made a lace free and that change the way the game was played. The first balls was made for for basketball only really and they were made in the late 1950s. They kept using the peach baskets until 1906 and then they finally started using the metal hoops with backboards.

So the objective of this game was to outscore the opponents by shooting the ball through the opponents basket from above, but you have to stop the opponents from doing the same thing that your doing. A great shot is worth two points or three points if you shoot beyond the three point arc which is 6.75 meters 22ft 2in from the basket in international games and 23feet 9inches 7.24m in NBA games. A one-point shot can be earned when shooting from the foul line after a foul is made. When you get foul you have to go to the free throw line and shoot from there, thats two you earn only one point. In the NBA you play four quarters for about 12 minutes in each quarter and in college they play 20 minutes for only two halves, and the women only play 10 minute quarters, and United States high school varsity games use 8 minute quarters. There are 15 minutes allowed for a break during the game. To be able to play, you have to have five players on the court at one time from both teams., Substitutions are unlimited but can only be done when play is stopped. All teams have coach whose job is to make the strategies of the team and other personnel such as the assistant coaches, managers, statisticians , doctors and trainers. The players play in a home or either away jersey with their name and number on the back of the jersey and also on the front of the jersey. A limited number of time-outs, clock stoppages requested by a coach or sometimes mandated in the NBA for a short meeting with the players, are allowed. They last for about one minute, well 100 seconds in the NBA unless for televised games and they always have a commercial break. The game is controlled by the referees they call out fouls, travels goaltending when the player is going out of bounds.The only equipment in a basketball game is the ball and the court, a flat rectangular surface with baskets at opposite ends.

They use clocks, score sheets, scoreboards, different kinds of arrow and operated stop clocks systems. In the NBA all of the courts be wooden well the floors and is made from maple planks and it suppose to go in the same direction as the longer court dimension. The basket is a steel rim and its 18 inches, 46 cm, diameter with a net attached to the backboard that measure for about 6 by 3.5 feet1.8 by 1.1 meters and one basket is at each end of the court. In the NBA the men basketball have to be a certain size In order for them to play, the size need to be 29.5 inches 75cm in circumference size 7, or a "295 ball and weighs 22 oz 623.69 grams. If women are playing, the official basketball size is 28.5 inches 72cm in circumference (size 6, or a 285 ball with a weight of 20 oz 567 grams. Also you can not keep running with the ball or its going to be a travel and if you messed around and dribble the ball with two hands its going to be double dribbling. You also can not carry the ball by placing your hand on the bottom of the ball, if you mess around and do that then your are carrying the ball then. If you carry the ball up court you can not go back or its going to be backcourt and you cant kick the ball either and if you do this you lose possession of the ball. If you step out of bound you also lose possession of the ball, so then the ball go to the opponent team. Some other things you should not do is goal-tend, which is block the ball really late, basically interfering with that person shot in any kind of way. Now for fouls the referee is the only people for calling all the fouls and the calling of fouls can be between games, leagues and referees. There is technical fouls which may be charged for various rules violations including failure to properly record a player in the scorebook, or for unsportsmanlike conduct. If you get a technical foul, you have to shoot free throws then either one or two and it can be shot by any of the five players.

There is two defensive strategies you need to learn about and one is zone defense, so zone defense is basically each player on the court have to guard a certain spot on the court. This type of defense allows the defense to double team the ball, which is called a trap. The other defense you need to learn about is man to man defense , for this type of defense each player have to guard their own player. Therefore offensive plays are more varied, normally involving planned passes and movements by players without the ball. Quick movements by the offensive player without the ball to gain a advantage position which is known as a cut to the basket. Then there is a screen or pick whichever one you prefer to call it, they are combined as the pick an roll, what that do is the player set a screen then he roll away to the basket to score. You have to have some pretty good teamwork in order to complete the pick and roll and if you don't you will end up turning the ball over to the other team. The point guard is the perfect person to call out this play to make sure it will be successful so your team can score. You need some great shooters on your team so they can have a better chance of winning cause shooting threes will get the lead up more and more as long as you can make them. Also there is two different type of shots one is called a set shot and that is when you shoot from a standing position and your foot do. To need to leave the floor at all. This shot is really use for free throws mostly , and the other shot is a jump shot is taken in mid air and you need to release the ball at the top of the jump. Another shot is a layup, to make this kind of shot you have to drive towards the basket and the only thing you have to do is lay the ball up into the basket, then there is one call a slam dunk in which the player jumps very high and throws the ball downward, through the basket while touching it. Some people like to do a circus shot and its difficult to do.

Im going to talk about the height that some people think you need be to play in the NBA which maybe 6ft and 3 inches. Guards are known to be the smallest players on the court and their dribbling skills normally be amazing. Its two very tall centers name Manute Bol and Gheorghe Muresan and they were both 7feet 7inches (2.31m) tall. The tallest current NBA player is Sim Bhullar who stands at 7feet 5inches 2.26m. At 7feet 2inches 2.18m. The shortest player in the NBA is Muggsy Bogues at 5feet 3inches 1.60m, and shorter players have amazing speed but they also are at a disadvantage against taller people and whenever they want to shoot the ball, it might get block because of how short that person is. and there was this NBA player name spuds Webb, he was short at 5 feet 7 inches 1.70m tall but he could jump very high to be that short, he could also dunk like he wasn't short at all. Blocking is performed after the other person shoot and then you jump in the air with them to swat the ball with your hand and you should not block a shot after it has already hit the backboard or its going to be goaltending. Under international rules it is illegal to block a shot that is in the downward path of its arc or one that has touched the backboard until the ball has hit the rim. After the ball hit the rim it is ok for you to touch it then, no goaltending will be call at all, height is a big factor for people in order to block people and then you could help out your team with defense a lot then. Hopefully your vertical is pretty high too in order to get a block against somebody who can jump high also, cause if not then they gone make the shot just about every time then. Dribbling is the act of bouncing the ball continuously with one hand, and is a must for a player to take steps with the ball. To dribble, a player pushes the ball down towards the ground with the fingertips rather than patting it; this ensures greater control.

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