Basketball

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Basketball

• Explanation
• Short History
• Set of Simple Rules

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What is basketball?

• Basketball is a team sport.
• It is played indoors.
• Two teams of five players each try to score
• points against one another by throwing a ball
  through a 3 m high hoop.
• Each hoop is placed at the end of a rectangular
  court.

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• Basketball is one of the most popular and widely
  viewed sports in the world.

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History of Basketball

• James Naismith,
• a Canadian physical education instructor invented
  basketball in 1891. Back then the game was played
  with an ordinary soccer ball and peach baskets
  between 2 teams of 9 players each. There were 13
  rules.

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• Soon metal rims replaced the peach baskets with
  netting underneath. Later people cut the netting
  so that the ball could go through.
• Senda Abbott first introduced basketball to woman
  in 1892.
• Professional basketball started in 1869 in New
  Jersey, USA.

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HISTORY OF GREEK BASKETBALL

• 1949-1952 International debut
• Greece's first appearance in international
  competition came at Eurobasket 1949 in Cairo,
  Egypt, where they won the bronze medal after a
  4-2 finish in the seven-team round robin
  tournament. The losses came against Egypt and
  France.
• The Greeks returned for Eurobasket 1951 in Paris.
  They placed second in their preliminary group
  with a 2-1 record but lost the semifinals to the
  Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia,and Italy. Further
  losses to Turkey and Belgium in classification
  matches put Greece in 8th place in the 18-team
  field.

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• Greece with the silver medal at 2006 FIBA World
  Championship
• Greece wins 2005 Eurobasket

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How basketball is played

• Basketball is played by two teams who score
  points by throwing a ball into the opposing
  team's basket. The team who scores the most
  points are the winners.
• Each team has a squad of 12 players to choose
  from. Five of those players are allowed on the
  court at any one time, with unlimited
  substitutions.
• Players can move the ball around the court by
  passing, tapping, throwing, rolling or dribbling.

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Duration

• The game consists of four quarters of 10 minutes
  each, with a 15-minute break at half-time.
• There are also two-minutes interval between the
  first and second periods, and between the third
  and fourth periods.
• If the game is tied after the fourth period, it
  continues with an extra period of five minutes,
  then as many five-minute periods as are necessary
  to break the tie.

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Main Officials

• Main officials include one referee and one
  umpire.
• The court is divided between them and they swap
  places after each foul involving a free throw
  penalty, as well as after each jump ball
  decision.
• They use whistles and hand signals to make and
  explain their decisions.
• Each game begins with a jump ball.
• The referee throws the ball into the air in the
  centre circle and two opposing players leap up
  and try to tap it away.
• Each player is allowed two taps before the ball
  hits the ground, a basket, a backboard or another
  player.

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Set of simple rules

• The ball may be thrown in any direction with one
  or both hands.
• A player cannot run with the ball.
• A player must throw it from the spot on which he
  catches it, or dribble the ball with one hand
  while they are running.
• The ball must be held by the hands.

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• Shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping or
  striking in any way a player of the other team is
  allowed.
• A foul is striking the ball with the fist.
• A goal shall be made when the ball is thrown or
  batted from the grounds into the basket and stays
  there, providing those defending the goal do not
  touch or disturb the goal.
• If the ball goes over the backboard, hits the
  side or the top of the backboard, then the ball
  is officially out of play.

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SCORING

• Points are scored for shooting the basketball
  through the hoop.
• Two points for a goal inside the three-point
  semi-circle, and three points for goals scored
  from outside.
• Free throws, taken from the free-throw line and
  awarded after a foul, are worth one point.

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Writing team

• Here you can see us, the writing team for
  basketball with
• Mr Tassos, teacher, school logo designer and
  webmaster for the school website.