BASKETBALL

MISTORY OF BASKETBALL
The game of basketball, unike many sports does not belonging to antiquity Comparatively amodern gamteit
was invented by Dr. James Naismith in December, 1891 at the international YMCA Training School in Springieu
Massachusetts US.A. (known as Springfield college). Dr. Luther Gulick, the director of physical education
department assigned Naismith the task of devising acompetitive game like football or lacrosse that could be playe0
indoors ouring winter months. In response to this. Naismith came out witha game called basketball featuring Hie
nlavers perteamas he had only 18 students in his school. Ina few years, the number was changed to five per se.
metal ring with anet replaced the original peach baskets that players shot at, and the five basic rules were moaiea
eliminating running with the ball. TheY.M.C.A.training school araduates took basketball to every nook and corner of
the five continents. In 1924, it was played as an exhibition game at the Olvmpic Games in Paris and become partor
the Olympics in 1936 at Berlin where Naismith himself was present to address the competing teams.
An
Dr James Naismith formed the first set of rules in 1892: these rules were first standardized in 1915.
International BasketballFederation was formed in 1932. The first International Championship was held in 1950 in
National Basketball
Argentina. In India. this game was introduced in 1904 by the Y.M.C.A. College. In 1950, the
Federation of India was formed.
BASIC RULES

1. COURT:

The basketball court shall be rectangular in shape. As per international

standard the court should be 28m in length and 15m in width. There should be
the hall
a clear space of atleast 2m from the boundary lines and the height of
should be at least 7m if played indoors.
2. BACKBOARD:
and 1.05m
The board should be 0.03m thick, 1.80m length horizontally 45 cm.

vertically. Its lower edge should be 2.90 m above the floor.

3 RING:
0.45m, thickness of
Basketball rings should have an inside diametre of
to the floor and
0.017m to 0.020m,should be painted orarnge, be horizental
3.05m atbove it.
4. NET:
rings to check the ball slightly.
Nets of 0.40m length should be attached to the
5. BALL:
600gm to 650am.
Basketball should have circumference of 0.749 to 0.780m and should weight between
6. TIME OUT:
quarter foramaximum of one minute.
One in each quarter and twice in the last
7. 24SECOND RULE:
When ateam gains possession ofthe ball, they have 24 seconds in which toshoot but if
8.
lose possession.
5-SECOND RULE:
theytalodoso.t
Aclosly guarded player holding the ball should pass, roll, bounce or shoott the ball within fives
8-SECOND RULE: seconds,
After receiving the ball in the back court, ateam must take it to their front court within eight second,
do so is a violation of eight second rule. talure
10. BALL RETURNEDTOTHE BACK COURT:
Ateam in control of the ballintheir front court should not sendit to the back court. Doing so is aviolbi.
11. 3-SECOND RULE:
Aplayer, while the ballis in control of his team, cannot remain for more than three second in the
restricted area. opponert
12. PIVOTING:
A
player holding the ball is allowed to step once or more than once in any direction with the same foot whie the
other foot, called the pivot foot, is kept in contact with the ground during this action.

28 m
Sijeline 8.325 m

5 Endine

575 n 6 75 m 3.60m

12m

0:375

Sideline 1-75
0-85m 0Nm o85m 85

5 m

Team bench are8 Team bench area

Scorers table

Team bench Tearn bench

basketball court

1A0om
1.8 M

45 cm

59 cm
1.05 M

120Gm
(inside end line)

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 MEASUREMENT OF PLAYFIELD AND
SPECIFICATION OF SPORTS EQUIPMENTS
BASKETBALL COURT
1 Dimens1on
2 Radius of centre cIrcle
3 Free throw line
(distance from point on the floordirectly below the
Three point area (from centre of ring) blackboard)
5 Width of mark1ng line
BACK B0ARD
1 Length (Vertical)
2 Width (Horizontal) 1 c0
3 Thickness 3c1
4 Width of strip around the board 5uni
5. Height of lower edge of backboard
from the floor
2.901:
6 Vertical length of inside rectangle 0.045n
7. Horizontal length of inside rectangle 0.59 ni
RING
1. Diameter 45 cm
2 Length of net 40cm
3. Distance of ring from board 15cm
4 Distance of ring from floor 3.05 m
BALL
1. Weight 600 to 650 gm
2 Circumference 75 to 78 cm

FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS
1. Holding the ball
2 Handling the ball
3 Basic stance a) Defensive b) Attacking
4 Moving on the court
5 Passing
a) Chest pass b) Bounce pass c) Hook pass d) Underhand pass
e) Baseball pass f) Overhead pass g) Jumppass
6 Dribbling
a) Low dribble b) High dribble
7. Offensive strategy
a) Triangular attack b) Screening
8. Pivoting:Pivoting means turning the body to either side by using any one leg as support.

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 9. Shooting
a) Chest shot b) One hand push shot
c) Lay up shot d) Jump shot e) Hook shot
10. Positioning on the court
11. Team defence
a) Man to man defence b) Switching man to man defence
c) Zone defence d) Guarding
The brief descriptions of some of the fundamental skills of basketball are given below.
1. HOLDING THE BALL:
Holding the ball is very significant for passing, throwing, shooting and
dribbling in basketball. So the ball should be held in hand with fingers
spread and the thumb tilted inward. The ballshould not be held between
palms while holding the bal. The hand should be relaxed but the grip
should be firm.The ball should be enough close to the body.
2. BASEBALL PASS:
Keep two hands on the ball as long as possible, use a stance with body
parallel to the sidelines, feet parallel to the baseline and then plant the
back foot, point and step with the front and throw the ball from the
ear,
similiar to a baseball catcher throws. Use full pronation and extention of
the arm ending with the thumb down as a measure of
follow- through,
throw this pass only with the dominant arm, using the off
-hand to catch
the fake pass and stabilize the ball. This pass is
effective in throwing long
passes.
3. PIVOTING:
Pivoting means turning the body to either side by usingany one legas a
fixed on the floor and the other foot or leg may be moved in any support. In pivoting, one foot must:
be kept close to the chest The pivoting is direction. During this movement the bal snou:
very useful for getting rid of an opponent.
4. DRIBBLING:
The palyers with the ball can move freely while
floor. The hand doesn't tute the ball, but bouncing the ball on the
taps it with flick of the wrist.
Stopping and restarting a ribble is against the rule.
5. MOVING ONTHE COURT:
Players are allowed to move anywhere on the court, but
run while holding the ball are not allowed to
6.
MANTO MAN DEFENCE:
The most conventional
deicnce used in basketball is the straight man to defence
player position himself between the man defence in which each
It can be played with two offensive player to whom he is assigned.
variat1ons -
(a) Pressing man to man
(b) Loose mantO man

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LAY UP SHOT:
Itis ashot at the basket by adribbler by taking offon one foot using ahigh
iump action and a full extention of the arm to place the ball directly or
indirectly into the basket.

TERMINOLOGIES
ASSIT Apass or handoff resulting in a basket by ateam mate.
BACKBOARD:The surface of wood, metal or alass to which the basket is affixed, used to carry shot into the
basket.
court
CHARGING : Afoul by an offensive player who runs into a defensive player who has established legal
position.
vigour
DUNK Toleap to or above the basket and stuff the ballthrough the hoop. Such a movement with great
is calledaslam dunk.
by
FREE THROW :The unobstructed shot from the foul line, worth one point awarded as a penalty for afoul
the opposing team.
towards the basket to receive a
6 GIVE AND GO:A play in which one palyer passes to a team mate and drives
pass for a lay-up.
of the alternate
HELD BALL : Simultaneous possession of ball by opposing players, leading to use
possession rule.
it. This
8 JUMP-BALL : Means puttingthe ball upward between tWo palyers into play by havingan official toss
only occurs at the start of the game.
9. LAY-UP:Ashot from alongside the basket, using the backboard as a guide.
a turnover or steal.
10. TRAP:Convergence of two or more defenders on a ball handler to force
11. THROW IN: Amethod of puttingthe ball into play from out of bound.
failure to
12. TECHNICALFOUL: A non-contact foul by a payer, team or coach for an sports man like behavior or
abide by rules of the game.
IMPORTANT TOURNAMENTS

1. European Cup 2 America Cup 3. Asian Cup

4. William Todd Memorial Trophy (National Level Competition for men)
5 Prince Basalat Jha Trophy (National Level Competition for women)
6 BC Gupta Trophy 7 Federation Cup
8 CMunni Swami Cup 9 All lndia Ramu Memorial Trophy
10. S.M.Arjuna Raja Trophy 11. Banglore Blues Cup
12. Williams Jones Cup
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 OLYMPIC GAMES :
1)
introduced in 1936. Since then
In Olympc Games he basketball game was the
basketball h
2)
being held in olympic games.
ASIAN GAMES:
charnpr
The Basketball Championship is being heldin Asian games since 1951 as apart of these
3) NATIONALBASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: games.
This Is a National Chanpionship of basketball for mens and womens. The first
championship was held at Banglore in 1952. It was organised by Basketball Federation national baske
4) ALL INDIA INTER UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIP:

It is held every year at ditferent Venues (University). In this championship all university teams ef k.
take part.

FAMOUS PERSONALITIES
1. Sarbjeet Singh 2 Gurdyal SIngh
3 Nishant Kumar 4 Surendra Kataria
5 Vijay Raghvan 6 Radhey Shyam
7. Manmohan Singh Khushiram
Parmendra S1ngh 10. SS Chana
11. Suman Sharma
1
Sarbjeet Singh:He was an outstanding basketball player of India. He got Arjun
2
Awardin 1968.
Ajmer Singh :Ajmer Singh played for India in the International
Competition more than hundred times.
He recerved Arjun Award in 1983.
3 Suman Sharma:Suman Sharma was a very famous plaver of
India. She was awarded the Arjun AWaroi
1983.
4
Nishant Kumar :He belongs to Bihar. He represented Indian basketball team several times in Internationa
and National Competition
Khushiram: He has won the men's National basketball
Championship several times. He is ne i
SUccesstul and outstanding player of basketball. He represented India several times in tournamenis
National and International level.He was given the Arjuna
Award in 1967.
AWARD WINNERS
1
ARJUNA AWARD
1 1961
Sarbjeet Singh 2. 1967 Khushi Ram
3 1968
Gurdyal Singh 4. 1969 Hari Dutt
5 1970 Abbas Moontasir 6 1971
7 1973
Manmohan Singh
Surendra Kumar Kataria 8 1974
9 Anil Kumar Punj
1975
Hanuman Singh 10 1977-78 T. Vijaya Raghavan

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