Sunday, June 27, 2010

Skills You Have To Perfect In Basketball

By Rick Lautner

Basketball players and fans are found throughout the world. Why not join them? You can learn basic basketball skills without too much difficulty, and play the game reasonably well if you get these basics down.

Here are some skills for you to master. There are only a few.

1. Boxing Out: when you do this, one player is between a player from the opposing team and the basket. If you want to rebound the ball in the basket and get the point, this is the position. You will stand here and recover a missed shot that bounces backwards.

2. Dribbling: Without dribbling, you can't play basketball. It's an essential skill. When you dribble, you bounce the ball with your fingertips, up and down on the ground so that each time it returns to your own hand.

You have to do this so that you can move legally with the ball. If you hold the ball instead and run more than a few steps this is against the rules. Instead, dribble the ball as you run and you are fine.

3. Shooting and pivoting: when you throw the ball in the effort to make a basket, you are shooting the ball. Pivoting is another term for a type of shooting, but in pivoting you are taking some steps after turning on one foot, then shooting.

4. Fouls: You need to know what causes a foul and what the result of a foul is. When someone fouls they wrongly interfere with another player. The penalty is that the player who was fouled gets one or more free throws, or chances to make a basket without anyone countering them. An example of impeding a player and fouling them would be to blocks someone coming your way by moving your arms out horizontally to block them.

Most fouls happen, though, when one player charges another. You can't run with the ball toward someone else who is standing still. You also can't do hacking, or hitting the arm of whoever has the ball at the time.

If you want to play basketball, you have to do a few things. Start with learning your dribbling and shooting, and also reduce your fouls. You can then go from there.

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