Basketball

Question 1

How many players and where is basketall played?

Answer 1

• . Two teams of five players each try to score by shooting a ball through a hoop elevated 10 feet above the ground.
• The game is played on a rectangular floor called the court, and there is a hoop at each end.

Question 2

Offensive team rules

Answer 2

• If the offensive team puts the ball into play behind the mid-court line,
• it has ten seconds to get the ball over the mid-court line.
• If not, the defensive team gets the ball
• Once the offensive team gets passed the mid-court line, it cannot go back to the other side of the line
• Team with the ball is called the offense

Question 3

How to get points

Answer 3

• Team makes basket=2 points and go back to their side
• Free throw is one point (when you are fouled and can get 2/3 throws)
• Basket is made past the three point arc=three points

Question 4

Free throws due to fouls

Answer 4

• 1 point for each shot
• if you are past the 3 point line, you get 3 throws
• Three free throws are awarded if the player is fouled while shooting for a three-point goal and they miss their shot.
• If a player is fouled while shooting a three-point shot and makes it anyway, he is awarded one free throw. Thus, he could score four points on the play.

Question 5

Time, start, halftime, halves , basket, jump ball, possession

Answer 5

• game in divided in two halves
• college=halves are 20 mins, highschool=8 min quarters, pros=12 min quarters
• If the score is tied at the end, overtime periods of various lengths are played until a winner emerges.
• Each team is assigned a basket or goal to defend. This means that the other basket is their scoring basket. At halftime, the teams switch goals.
• The game begins with one player from either team at center court. A referee will toss the ball up between the two.
• The player that gets his hands on the ball will tip it to a teammate. This is called a jump ball
• Possessions violations: 5 sec to pass the ball, 24 sec to put in a shot, 8 sec to have the ball in your own half, 3 sec in opposing team’s key

Question 6

1. Personal fouls
2. Personal foul penalties (inbounds and ten or more fouls)

Answer 6

1. Personal fouls: Personal fouls include any type of illegal physical contact.

Hitting

Pushing

Slapping

Holding

2. Personal foul penalties: If a player is shooting while a being fouled, then he gets two free throws if his shot doesn’t go in, but only one free throw if his shot does go in.
   - Free throws
   - Inbounds. If fouled while not shooting, the ball is given to the team the foul was committed upon. They get the ball at the nearest side or baseline, out of bounds, and have 5 seconds to pass the ball onto the court.
   - Ten or more fouls- if the team committing the foul has ten or more fouls, then the fouled player receives two free throws

Question 7

Other fouls (not personal)

Answer 7

1. Charging. An offensive foul that is committed when a player pushes or runs over a defensive player. The ball is given to the team that the foul was committed upon.
2. Blocking. Blocking is illegal personal contact resulting from a defender not establishing position in time to prevent an opponent’s drive to the basket.
3. Flagrant foul. Violent contact with an opponent. This includes hitting, kicking, and punching. This type of foul results in free throws plus the offense retaining possession of the ball after the free throws.
4. Intentional foul. When a player makes physical contact with another player with no reasonable effort to steal the ball. It is a judgment call for the officials.
5. Technical foul. A player or a coach can commit this type of foul. About the ‘manners’ of the game. Foul language, obscenity, obscene gestures, and even arguing can be considered a technical foul, as can technical details regarding filling in the scorebook improperly or dunking during warm-ups.

Question 8

Violations

Answer 8

1. Walking/Traveling. Taking more than ‘a step and a half’ without dribbling the ball is traveling. Moving your pivot foot once you’ve stopped dribbling is traveling.
2. Carrying/palming. When a player dribbles the ball with his hand too far to the side of or, sometimes, even under the ball.
3. Double Dribble. Dribbling the ball with both hands on the ball at the same time or picking up the dribble and then dribbling again is a double dribble.
4. Held ball. Occasionally, two or more opposing players will gain possession of the ball at the same time. The referee stops the action and awards the ball to one team or the other on a rotating basis.
5. Goaltending. If a defensive player interferes with a shot while it’s on the way down toward the basket, while it’s on the way up toward the basket after having touched the backboard, or while it’s in the cylinder above the rim, it’s goaltending and the shot counts. If committed by an offensive player, it’s a violation and the ball is awarded to the opposing team for a throw-in.
6. Backcourt violation. Once the offense has brought the ball across the mid-court line, they cannot go back across the line during possession. If they do, the ball is awarded to the other team to pass inbounds.
7. Time restrictions

Question 9

Player Positions

Answer 9

1. Center. tallest players. positioned near the basket.

Offensive get open for a pass and to shoot, blocking defenders, known as picking or screening, to open other players up for driving to the basket for a goal get some offensive rebounds and put-backs.
Defensive keep opponents from shooting by blocking shots and passes in the key area. get a lot of rebounds because they’re taller.

2. Forward Your next tallest players. Play under the hoop, in the wings and corner areas.
   Offensive – Forwards are responsible to get free for a pass, take outside shots, drive for goals, and rebound.
   Defensive – Responsibilities include preventing drives to the goal and rebounding.

3.Guard. shortest players, good at dribbling fast, seeing the court, and passing. It is their job to bring the ball down the court and set up offensive plays.

Offensive – Dribbling, passing, and setting up offensive plays, drive to the basket and to shoot from the perimeter.
_Defensive – s_tealing passes, contesting shots, preventing drives to the hoop, and for boxing out.

Question 10

• Baseline
• Key
• Wing
• Three-Point Arc
• Midcourt line
• Sideline
• Top of the Key
• Freethrow line
• Corner

Answer 10