Free throw

Basketball: The Greatest Sport Played Indoors Basketball is a very physically and mentally demanding sport, which is why michael Jordan once said this about basketball “ I’ve missed over 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games, have been trusted 26 times to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Because of its continuous action and frequent scoring, basketball is one of the most popular spectator as well as…

intensity went to another level in the 2nd half. These boys came out to play and gave all they had to open the 3rd Qtr. Chris Campbell continued to have his way in the paint , and AJ Smith joined the party driving to the paint and getting to the free throw line slightly…

Tigers’ gym. The boys approach the locker room while the girls proceed to the stands. The cheerleaders remove their pom poms before they stow their duffels in the corner of the gymnasium. The basketball players take the court and commence shooting free throws. “5, 6, 7, 8,” the players look over to see the girls practicing their halftime routine. All at once, the buzzer on the clock sounds and the game will officially begin in two…

that I made the shot. This was the moment that I determined to play basketball. I immediately joined the basketball team in my school. In the team, I was the worst player, and I knew that. I did not think that the player who can barely shoot from free-throw line can play well. Therefore, I kept practicing basketball. I ran a miles to build up physical strength, took couple of hundred shots over and over, and dribbled the ball as fast as possible. Every practice made me exhausted, nevertheless I…

Joshua Levine, Sara Etchison, and Daniel Oppenheimer created a study amongst college athletes that showed the “pluralistic ignorance” among students who are involved in athletics, and why they shoot lower for their major, than they do on their free throws. This research is important because it shows how students are getting caught up and not managing their time as well as it needs to. The authors of the article did a good job explaining how students can be affected by multiple factors and they…

There once was a charismatic boy named Sam Hustle who played basketball. He always dreamed of playing for Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. One day after school Sam opened the mail and noticed a letter addressed to him from Creighton. He ripped open the letter and as he read it he saw it was a full ride scholarship to play basketball and go to college. He was galvanized with this news. He rushed upstairs to tell his parents the good news. One year later Sam rolled up to college.…

defender so upset that he decided the best course of action for him was a begin to scream and yell at me then slap me square in the chest. The refs saw this foul and gave him a technical foul this got me team fired up because we made both of our free throws and had tied the game after this foul we never looked back and kept charging towards the…

Pick and Role The pick and roll is one of the most well-known and basic plays in all of basketball. The pick and roll is executed between two players and these players are usually the point guard and the center. The point guard is the player that runs the team and is usually the smallest and quickest player on the team. The center is the player that lots of team run the plays through and is usually the largest and strongest player on the team. The most basic pick and roll is when the center…

There are so many kinds of throws in ball sports. For my science project I need to know about them so I have backup for my Hypothesis. I am testing whether a basketball goes farther using a chest pass, a push pass, an overhead pass or an underhead pass. The overhead pass has that extra flick of the wrist when your two arms are above your head. When you stop the motion to release the ball it gives a jolt to propel the ball forward.(Sarah Berton's brain). According to one source I read, this…

Pool Pockets Problem Statement: In this POW you have to find the rebounds on a rectangular pool table (4 holes) with whole number distances.Every shot is shot at a 45 degree angle and always shot from the lower left corner and what pocket it lands in. Process: I started out by drawing many rectangles with each many different dimensions ( 2*3, 2*1, 4*10, 2*9, etc.) Then i did the actual problem /experiment and counted the rebounds on each rectangle, and each will be shot from the bottom left…