Basketball: How to Play?

Basketball is a team sport in which its objective is to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally placed to score points. In basketball there are five players in a team which play on a rectangular court with a basket at each end of the court. Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. 

 The usual basketball hoop has a rim of eighteen inches in diameter and is mounted ten feet high on the backboard. A team can score by shooting the ball through the basket during the play. The points are given as depending on from where the person has done field goal. A team will get two points for shooting the ball in the basket, if the person is standing inside the three point line. And the team will get three points if their player scores outside the three point line. The team with the most points wins the game. There is a stipulated time for each game in which each team needs to score in the opposite basket. If both teams’ scores are the same an extra time may be given. 

Violations in basketball are called fouls. A player can advance on the basketball court by bouncing the ball while walking or running or simply throw it to your teammate. Bouncing on the ball in the court is called as dribbling and throwing the ball to team mate is called passing. If you’re the one holding the ball, you need to dribble it, make sure you will move and be conscious not to hold it with both hands, or else, it will be considered as foul.

It is called as a personal foul if the player is doing disruptive physical contact and is penalized. A free throw is given to an offensive player. Basketball has evolved and has many commonly used techniques such as shooting, dribbling, rebounding, and passing. There are specialized player positions and offensive or defensive structures and techniques such as center, small forward, point guard, shooting guard, and power forward etc.