Three-point field goal

“Shooter, shooter, she’s a shooter!!” vigorously shouted the opposing coach who wore an orange hat that clashed with his increasingly reddening face. I grinned and caught the rotating, leathery ball my teammate passed to me. Once it reached my fingers, everything became automatic. Not a single thought crossed my mind after my eyes focused on the red hook at the back of the rim. My right arm launched the ball upward, arching towards the basket. It was a movement I had practiced thousands of times. Over and over, I learned to recognize a perfect release from one that was not. They call it a “shooter’s touch”, and this shot from behind the three point line felt pure. A feeling like that doesn’t come easy and for me, developing that feeling took…

walk out of the office. It seemed odd that my supervisor didn 't even ask for my name or how I was doing, but it was just a miniscule detail that I overlooked. As we walked down the road to the games, you could hear and see everyone going on the rides, walking around and just enjoying themselves. You could even see people going down the drop tower. After a few minutes, we entered the park and went straight towards the basketball games next to the drop tower. “Ok, so this is the…

moment. As the clock began to wind down Jake brought up another question, and with this one I completely froze. He looked at me and said “when am I gonna go in?” At that point I knew I needed to do something, So I walked over to coach and asked if we could put Jake in for the last 90 seconds. He paused for a second grinned and said “Why not” so Coach called a time out, walked over to the other team and let them know that we were about to put Jake in. While coach was doing that I let Jake know…

Championship Team In fall 2011 I played basketball for my father’s friend team. Our team name was the wizards. We played all over the city, sometimes we would play out of town but mostly in St. Louis. Our season was coming to an end, but not before playoffs. Like college basketball in march madness if you lose a game, you are eliminated. We were a great team so we advanced through the first few rounds pretty easily. But our last three games were all difficult. Our first difficult game was…

Speedball is a game we played by combining, three sports soccer, football, and basketball. The game starts by putting the ball on the middle of the football field. Both teams have to be in position on their own side of the football field or with the position of soccer ball The ball has to be kicked forward to start the game. Speedball is played by the position of the ball whether the ball is on the ground or a ball is in the air. When the ball is on the ground, it can only be played like a…

using advanced stats we are using stats that have been kept track of for a long time. The four stats we choose are Field goal percentage, turnover percentage, offensive rebounds, and 3 point percentage. Field goal percentage is how many shots made divided by how many shots attempted. Together as a group we gave this statistic a weight of thirty five percent. Turnover percentage is the estimate of turnovers per one hundred possessions, we assigned this a twenty five percent. Offensive rebounds is…

Geometry of Goal Scoring The game of soccer is played by millions of people, players, and teams around the world. In all the games, there is one thing the teams are looking to achieve, scoring a goal. Scoring a goal as in, getting the ball inside the opponents net using anything but hands. One could use their head, knee, chest, thigh, foot, face, and many more and what is used could affect if it is made or not. What some people may not know are the other factors that increase or decrease their…

Those who do not play nor watch sports have very little knowledge on the subject. The one thing everyone knows and that all sports have in common is, the main point, to score against the opponent. Professional football and basketball are two of the most popular sports in America. With millions of fans watching live televised games across the nation these two sports each generate billions of dollars every year. The players make millions based on their salary, bonuses, and endorsements. Although,…

deals with statistics. Listed throughout this article are a few different ways that statistics are used or should be used while filling out a March Madness bracket. The first concept is averages/percentages. To find the average of how many points a player averages per game, you take the points made divided by the total number of games a player has played. Let’s say a player from Kansas has a high scoring percentage, someone might pick Kansas to win because this player has such a high scoring…

on the field with four fifteen minute quarters. The primary rule is that your team has to advance the ball forward by having your running back run the ball or passing the ball to your receiver. But once the player with…