The Force to Dribble a Basketball

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

“Swish”, the ball goes through the net! I often wonder how some of the best basketball players get to be so accurate with their shot. Basketball shooting form has changed many times over the years, and all of the great shooters today spend hours on end perfecting the process that they go through every time they take a shot. The process of shooting a basketball is very important.

For example a tennis ball will bounce higher than a soccer ball because it has more air pressure and it is harder.

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“Playing basketball can be hard work. Players not only have to run around the court, but just dribbling the basketball takes some serious effort, too.” (“Surface Science: Where Does a Basketball Bounce Best?”). Energy reserved inside the ball, transfers into Different types of energy (ex. Heat, sound) when the ball hits the ground. But, which type of court restores the most energy back into the ball?

While the most important parts of being a baller can be debated for years and years. I believe all would agree that you have to be able to put the ball in the hoop. That is why I have spent most of my life learning how to shoot a basketball properly. The

When the ball hits the ground the ball deforms and the air pressure increases in the deformed area and quickly through all the ball

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

Everything in motion has kinetic energy. When a basketball hits the ground the kinetic energy travels through the ball and reacts to the pressure causing the ball to bounce.

Whether they are running laps to warm up or just walking around the field, the player should do so with a ball on foot. Constantly dribbling the ball will guide the player to determine their comfort zone with the ball. This meaning, how distant the ball can be from them before they start to lose control. Dribbling the ball with different variations can assist the person practicing to figure out in what ways they can maneuver the ball around themselves. Dribbling is a way for the individual to acquire a feel for the ball and decide what they are comfortable with. After that is verified, they can work on one type of dribbling that fits them best and how to gain ball control using that type of

Basketball is a very high paced and a physical game. It is a sport where if a player makes a mistake it could be very costly or not a lot. There are a lot of different surfaces that could possibly affect the bounce of a basketball. (Ohman, Kyle) If basketball is played inside a gym the surface is most likely a hardwood floor. (Ohman, Kyle) Hardwood floors after time they age and get something called wet spots, and if you bounce the ball on that spot the bounce of the ball will die. There are hardwood, concrete, asphalt, concrete, multi purpose flooring, and sports tiles , but it is hard to know which is the best for playing a game of basketball. This experiment will prove which surface produces the highest bounce.

There are numerous different steps required to be a good basketball player. There are different aspects of the game that can drastically change the tempo of the game. Of course shooting the ball is important, but improving dribbling, defensive, and passing skills are also important. A players ability in all phases of the game is what makes them a good player.

Dribbling is all based on conservation of energy and the two different types of collisions, elastic and inelastic.

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

Connecting to audience: I’m sure most of you have shot a basketball in your lifetime, but I’m sure few of you are aware of the basic mechanics to shooting a basketball. Today, I’ll show the basics of shooting.