An Abbreviated Summary of Hoops Games

Professional basketball games generally take about two and a half hours to play.

Standard basketball games include five players on each of two teams with one basket at each end of a playing surface. Score is kept by keeping track of how many times each team penetrates the other‘s defenses and scores goals. The team without the basketball, known as the defensive team, tries to prevent this from happening by guarding the offensive players.

Defensive players, depending on how strictly the rules are being enforced, often have leeway in how much contact they can have with offensive players. If they exceed prescribed limitations, it is called a foul and, in most instances, players from the offensive team are awarded an uncontested shot at the basket, called a free throw.

A simple game

• though one-on-one is fun as well
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• Willingness to follow simple rules

The act of bouncing the basketball is mandatory if the person with the ball in his possession wishes to move from Point A to Point B. The rules are very specific about what you must do while dribbling. Possession of the basketball changes hands whenever a player breaks the rules by “traveling,” or proceeding down the court with the basketball and not dribbling.

Whenever an offensive player is fouled in the act of shooting, he is sent to the free throw line for two, and sometimes three free, unchallenged shots.

Other than free throws, which count one point each, there are two types of scores in basketball; two-pointers and three-pointers. Shots made from attempts taken a long distance from the basket, behind a painted line known as the arc, are awarded three points. The definition of a two point basket is any successful shot on goal that was launched inside the arc.

Look at the scoreboard once the final horn has sounded, and the score will tell you who won and lost the game. If the score is tied at the end of the game, the two teams will go into overtime and the team with the most points at the end of overtime becomes the winner.

The rules are very simple but basketball games result in some of the most highly watched and entertaining sports at every level of play.

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