What is basketballs?

Answer 1

Basketball is a popular sport. There are five players on each team and each team tries to get the basketball in each other's nets. You play this game with a basketball which is a sphere colored orange with black stripes. Basketball is most common in the USA. There are professional teams, college teams, high school, middle and even some elementary school teams. The main thing is to get the ball into the opposing team's hoop by dribbling and shooting with your hands.

There a few different ways you can score. The first is to make a basket within the large that extends past the free throw line. Any shot in this range is worth 2 points. Any shot made outside of the large arc is worth 3 points. If you are fouled while shooting, you may go to the free throw line to earn back your points. Each free throw is worth one point. There are many rules to basketball, and some rules are added in each upcoming year.

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Answer 2

Basketball is a sport is which you have to try to get the basketball through the hoop.

It is played on a hardwood floor, called a court. The court has an out of bounds line where you need to make sure that the ball doesn't go out of, or your foot doesn't go out of when you have the ball.

Like most other sports, there is a referee, or 'ref', like an umpire for softball/Baseball. The ref is there to make sure that everyone is following all of the rules.

There are two main parts to basketball that are mostly the same within all sports. Offense and defense. And, there are 3 main components to offense.

1.) Dribbling- To move from place to place while you have the ball, you have to dribble, or bounce, the ball. There are rules to dribbling. You have to dribble, or it is called traveling and you have to give up the ball to the other team. Also, you have to continuesely dribble. If you drible 3 times, then hold the ball, then dribble again, that is called double dribble, and you have to give up the ball to the other team.

2.) Passing- there are many types of passing. It is to get the ball to your teammate when you are on offense. You can use the chest pass, by simple passing the basketball to your teammate in the air starting from you chest. Or, you can use the bounce pass by passing the ball to your teammate with a bounce 3/4 of the way to them. Or, you can use the baseball pass if you need to get the ball really far up the court. You throw the basketball just like a baseball. The last pass is the overhead pass. This is used by really tall people when inbounding the ball. (ex. after getting it from the other team after they made a basket)

3.) Shooting- This is how you gain points. If it is inside the 3 point line, an arc that goes around your side of the court, it is 2 points. If it is outside the arc, it is worth 3 points. Also, you can gain 1 point by shooting foul shots. You get these shots if you get fouled. A foul is a thing that you can't do in the game, like tripping someone.

Defense is keeping the other team from getting points. You have to be careful to not foul, or you will let the other team get to start the play over if you fouled when they weren't shooting, or get foul shots if you fouled them when they were shooting. There are 3 main ways to play defense.

1.) Zone- where each of the players stay in one area to guard everyone that comes into their zone. There are many different ways that a coach can arrange the players to form a zone defense.

2.) Man-on-man- each player guards one specific player.

3.) Combinations- used when there is one or 2 really good players, and they will have 1 or 2 or 3 players on man and the rest on some kind of zone.

Answer 3

a basket ball is a big ball that is orange with black stripes and used to shoot baskets.