Basketball In The 1930's

Attention Getter: “I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a Baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her.” That timeless phrase coined by Ski-Lo in the early nineties, resonates with so many of us because all of those goals are things that people relate to being successful. And while I can’t help you with the first and the last respectively, becoming a “Basket-baller” is quite feasible, with a little hard work.

Has to be done using feet and defending team have to go for ball and not the player.

Biomechanical principles: After the contraction of the arm muscle the force from the lower body has move through. The force has continued onto the upper body to allow a powerful shot.

“Other sports had limits — in baseball you get three outs to score, in football you must make 10 yards in four downs or you lose the ball. But in basketball, if you had the lead and a good ball handler, you could play around all night.” He thought that if the amount of time that a team could have possession of the ball was limited in some way, teams would score more points. He proposed the rule change at an NBA owners meeting and the 24 second shot clock was introduced in the 1954-55 season. At first rule was enforced by using a stopwatch and when the 24 seconds were up “TIME!”

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We can all agree that basketball is almost becoming popular around the world. So many people play this sport but do people know how basketball started and how it evolute throughout the years since basketball was borned? So like every other sports and creations, there has to be a inventor and in basketball there was a man by the name of Dr. James Naismith. “Created in 1891 in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium has grown into a game played worldwide by more than 300 million people”(historybits.com). So this game has been out for a very long period of time with many changing of the rules in basketball throughout the history. When it was first played in the late 1800s, there were different rules and even different looking basketball. As for the rules, originally there would be 10 people on the court but it first started with 18 people on the court which after couple of years it changed to only 10 people. Substitution was also different and the rule for this was at first no one can enter until the next game. “The rule was changed in 1920 to allow a player to re-enter the game one time. In 1934, the rule was expanded to allow players to re-enter the game twice, and, in 1945 the rule was finally changed to permit players to return to the game an unlimited number of times”(hooptactics.com). The first basketball looked very alike a football but round. The backboards were made out of straight wood and the baskets were made out of peach baskets or square boxes. There was only

Throughout most of my days in my basketball gym class my teacher Mr.Blatt had taught us some important fundamental skills. One of the skills I feel that was very important for anybody to know is the Lay-ups.Lay-ups are the backbone of any team offense and every player's offensive repertoire. Without the threat of a lay-up being made, all other shots could become next to impossible to make it. Just imagine if you had to defend your team knowing that lay-ups were not allowed. What offense and, what screens would be set or, even one – on – one move would you make if you could not properly execute a lay-up? Yet the lay-up is the shot we spend the least time on and, it’s the most ignored shot of all.

This aspect is also extremely crucial when you don’t get a very good jump on the ball. Getting a good jump on the ball is very important, and for the most part

Preparation Phase- (Weight on back foot, wrist cocked, visualizing the placement of the ball.) Stability and Balance- The weight is on the back foot and there is control before executing the shot. The base of support is also shown through the image with the Centre of gravity through the base of support. Transfer and Conservation of Momentum -

In order to understand how the game of basketball is played, we must first familiar ourselves with some terminologies that are important to the game of basketball. First

The first description of a shot was described earlier as simply a shot but more specifically can be referenced to a jump shot. The second way to look at shooting the basketball using physics is referred to as a layup. The difference between the two is that a jump shot has little or no horizontal movement toward the basket. Instead the jump shot relies strictly on vertical movement. Specifically the shooter will be stopped and jump using two feet straight up and down vertically and push the basketball off the finger tips to obtain the force and angle to get the ball to the basket. The layup on the other hand is done by the shooter jumping off of one foot while running. The shooter jumps vertically and uses the momentum from running to propel horizontally toward the basket. The shooter is generally closer to the basket while shooting a layup versus a jump shot. The same physics that were applied to the jump shot are applied to the layup as well. There is still an angle and force that the ball would need to travel toward the basket but since the shooter is moving horizontally toward the basket velocity will play more of factor. Since the balls velocity is the sum of the shooters speed and the balls speed the ball does not need as much force to get to the basket but it is more or less just let go of or dropped off into the basket. This also explains the slam dunk. Instead of dropping the ball into

For example, if a player who is fouled can’t shoot the free throw, the other team coach selects the free throw shooter from the 4 players on the floor. The coach of the fouled player used to be able to select any player from his roster to substitute. Another change in the rules are the formation around the free throw line. The players that are trying to retrieve possession of the ball after the free throw shot changed the number of players around the lane from 8 to 6. Exchanging possession of the ball rule was introduced in this time period.

Thesis: Basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1839. The objective was to throw the basketball into fruit baskets strapped to the railing of the gym balcony. As you can see the game of basketball has changed tons over the years and continues to grow.

He got to thinking and started combining ideas from other games to make the game of what it is known today as basketball. Naismith invented this game in 1891 (Faurschou).

Central Idea: The game of basketball has greatly changed since it was invented, but one thing remains constant: You need to know how to shoot a basketball.