How to Play Basketball

How to play Basketball

In order to play basketball, you need one basketball and two basketball

hoops on opposite ends of the court. The hoops should be ten feet high.

In an original game, you should form two teams of five individuals apiece would

be the requirements. If a court just so happens to be full or fewer players are

available, a game with one hoop can be played using alternate rules.

The object is for you to score more baskets than your opponent.

You should play a typical game for sixty minutes with four fifteen-minute periods,

but you really can determine the length yourself. For you to start the game, the

two teams you formed, line up around the two centers. Each of your players

matches up against another based on height and skill to make it fair.

The referee throws the ball straight up and the two of you who are playing the

position center, jump up to gain possession. The goal for you is to "tip" the ball

to your teammates to gain possession.

Remember Basketball is much as an offensive game as defensive game.

When you have the ball, all of the members of your team are on offense.

On offense you are trying to score points by shooting the ball into the opposing

team's basket. Each "basket" your team scores is worth two points.

Baskets scored outside the three-point line (an arc-shaped line beyond the free

throw line) are worth three points.

On offense you need to advance the ball, you can advance the ball in two

ways: by passing and dribbling. First Dribbling, you need to take the ball and

bounce it on the floor in a continuous motion. This is the process of dribbling.

You can move your feet and body in any direction as long as you are dribbling

but if you move in any direction without dribbling the ball then that is a violation.

The goal for your team on offense is...