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A layup is a two-point attempt made by leaping from the ground, releasing the ball with one hand up near the basket, and using one hand to tip the ball over the rim and into the basket (lay-in) or banking it off the backboard and into the basket (lay-up). The motion and one-handed reach distinguish it from a jump shot.
Wisnu was born in New York City, United States on March 15, 1988, to an Indonesian parents.Wisnu played soccer and didn't start playing basketball until he was 12 years old and only after being influenced by his cousin to pick up the sport.
Buzzer beater – A basket in the final seconds of a game (right before the buzzer sounds) that in itself results in a win or overtime. Dunk – (v) To score by putting the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. (n) A shot made by dunking. Fadeaway – A jump shot taken while jumping backwards, away from the basket.
A basketball player at Alabama's University of Mobile is dead after collapsing after a gym workout, according to his coach. Kaiden Francis was a freshman basketball player from Fort Lauderdale ...
Generally, the team is willing to gamble on giving away easy baskets for the sake of maintaining a high tempo. [8] Loyola Marymount successfully used the system in 1990 when they advanced to the Elite 8 of the NCAA basketball tournament, beating the defending champion Michigan 149–115 along the way. The style has been used at some other teams.
The Elam Ending, also known as final target score, [1] is a rules format for basketball.Unlike traditional basketball rules, in which the game is played with four timed quarters, with the Elam Ending format, teams end the game by playing to a target score.
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith. On 15 January 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of "Basket Ball" that he invented: [1] The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.