Shooting Free Throw

A good basketball player must be good at dribbling the basketball. A player must know when he should dribble the ball and when he should not. A player should never over dribble the ball. A player needs to practice dribbling as often as possible. He must be able to dribble with both hands.

Ten seconds left of the game, and team is down a point in the state championship. Your team needs two points to win, one to tie the game and send to overtime. The coach calls time-out, and makes a creates a play for you to score the winning points. The, point-guard, the leader of the squad, looks you into the eye and says, “ You better win this for us, rookie.” He then gives you a hard shove, enforcing you to take, and make, the winning shot. The shove felt like it could push out of the arena, but you stay your ground. Time-in, the game resumes, as you feel a cold sweat down your back. The point-guard passes you the ball to shoot the ball. The ball is released from your hands, and you “AIRBALL!” As the crowd

This takes a lot of practice for you to pull this off well. Nothing comes without practice, definitely not skill. I have tried and failed many times. The first time, the ball left my hand and bounced twice on the court, while I could only watch as my defender picked up the ball and dribbled down the court for a layup. I felt a sinking feeling, and decided that I wouldn’t try again until I practiced it more. So, a couple weeks later, against another team, I tried again. And failed. Again. So, I had to practice even more. If you don’t control the ball, then your defender will score, not you. It will slip from your hands, and most of the time, your defender or another defender will get the ball instead. So, next week (which was the last game of the regular season) I tried again, and it finally worked. I blew by the defender for the layup. It might not seem like much, but I got the confidence to pull that more often, and I become ok at

Stephen Curry is probably the best 3 shooter in the NBA. He can be dribbling more than 10 mphs and set his feet for a jump shoot in just a third of a second.Though he stops so fast there is still no waste in motion. He also release shoots the ball 55 degrees which gives his shoot a bigger target at the rim. As said in a article in the link it says the steeper the shot, the wider the opening is to the rim. Curry release the ball as he is rising which makes it hard for his opponent to block his shot. After picking up his dribble he can get the ball of in four tenths of a second which is the fast release in the NBA today. His shot is so consistent because of muscle memory. Stephen Curry also has proof that the science of how he shoots the ball

The more and more I look around I begin to see how physics are integrated into practically everything that we do. These things would surely go unnoticed without making a conscious effort to notice them. For example simple things like riding a bike, or driving a car, or playing catch with a son or daughter. Just as these activities are loaded with elements of physics, sports are also, especially basketball. Physics play a part in every aspect of the game, from dribbling, passing, and shooting, to things as simple as setting a screen. First we should take a look at the elements of dribbling.

Shooting a basketball involves many steps. To shoot a basketball a hoop is needed. So, go to a gymnasium at school,rec center, or even your driveway. Grab a basketball and dribble a few times to get comfortable with the basketball before shooting the basketball. Go to a spot closer to the hoop, like the left or right block on the marked court. It is a square shape located on the floor of the gym. After finding the blocks or the place you choose to shoot from, the first thing you should do is line your foot up to the basket. If you are left-handed, your left foot should be lined up to the basket. If you are right-handed, your right foot should be lined up to the basket. Once you have lined your dominant foot up, the other foot that is not lined

The referee gave me the ball, I took a deep breath, took a dribble and shot it. It went in, the game was tied now and as the referee gave me the ball for the second time. The gym was almost completely silent, waiting to witness me shoot it. I took another deep breath, one dribble and shot it again. It swished through the net and it went from almost completely silent to an enormous ROAR in the crowd. And it was over, we won. Off of one free throw. And from that I learned, that it may seem impossible, and the chances can be against you. It might be that you have a 99.9% chance of losing. If there is a will. There is a way and people just need believe in themselves self and the .1% chance they’ve

Basketball is a favorite sport to many Americans. It is a sport that takes strength, determination, hand-eye coordination and many other challenging aspects. All of this skill is used to do one thing, put the ball in the hoop. The ball itself is surprisingly very complex and takes a while to be comfortable with it.

Transition: As you get closer and closer to actually “shooting” the ball, the form becomes more and more important. The room for error becomes miniscule.

There are many aspects to the game of basketball and physics can be applied to all of them. Although to be good at basketball it is not necessary to play it from a physics point of view. Basketball players become good by developing muscle memory for the actions that must be performed in the game of basketball from years of practice. Nevertheless knowing some of the physics in the game of basketball can help a good player be a better player. In this paper I will cover the three most important aspects of the game, shooting, dribbling and passing.

The layup shot is the most commonly used shot in basketball, you don’t need to be tall to perform this shot. The aim of the shot is that you need to dribble and drive to the basket and aim to hit the backboard to score a point. Driving from the side of the court should give you enough space to dribble to the basket and perform the jump. Put all your weight on the front of your leg, if you are right handed then you will jump off your left leg and if you are left handed then you will jump off your right leg. Bending your knees will help provide the spring needed. Jump off of your forward leg, and thrust your arms upwards towards the basket to prepare for the

is where you want to focus on the rim and extend at the elbow, and extending at

On Tuesday night, I sat down on the couch in my living room and watched an NBA basketball game on ESPN. My favorite team was facing up against the best team in their division, and I was anxious and curious to see who would win. After a devastating and gruesome four quarters, my team lost 77 to 111. To say the least, it was a very hard game to watch. The players on the Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t buy a shot even if they tried, while the players on the Golden State Warriors effortlessly made nearly every shot they attempted. I wasn’t surprised when the post game statistics revealed that the field goal percentage for my team was 37.3%, while the other team’s was 48.95%. On Wednesday morning, I researched the individual field goal makes and

“I don’t know what is wrong with me” I told myself. I have always wanted to score a goal to give my team a point. I plan to just risk it all today and shoot. I was so nervous I turned red.

Shooting the basketball is the easiest thing to improve. The best way to enhance shooting is to keep practicing. Better shooting greatly increases the teams score and gives the opponents a hard time of catching up. Once a player feels their shot is good enough, they can attempt 3-point shots. There is a line pretty far away from the goal