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Basketball – Knowledge Organiser
Overview
• Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender’s hoop, while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
• A basket is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-Roint line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws.
Rules
- Fouls- If any foul is committed, the non-offending team should take a throw in from the side line.
Fouls Include: - Deliberately kicking the ball or striking it with a fist.
- Knocking the ball out of the court.
- Dribbling with two hands on the ball at once or letting the ball come to rest then continuing to dribble (Double Dribble).
- Running with the Ball (Travelling)
- Each team can have a maximum of 5 players on the court at any one time.
- The ball can only be moved by either dribbling(bouncing the ball) or passing the ball.
- Once a player puts two hands on the ball (not including catching the ball) they cannot then dribble or move with the ball and the ball must be passed or shot.
Further Support
- English Basketball – https://www.basketballengland.co.uk
- Access Sport – https://www.accesssport.org.uk/basketball
- Great British Basketball – https://gb.basketball
- British Wheelchair Basketball – https:/ /britishwheelchairbasketball.co.uk