Basketball
By: Carter Minsker
Table of Contents
Page 1………..…………………..…………..….………...Table of Contents
Page 2………………………………...………..…………………...…...Glossary
Page 3…………..…………………….……….…Description of Basketball
Page 4……………………………………...……..Playing is Fun (Pictures)
Page 5……………………………………………………..Basketball is Simple
Page 6…….……………………………………………….The Basics
(Pictures)
Page 7….…………………………..…...Difference From Other Sports
Page 8………………….…………….Showing Comparisons (Pictures)
Page 9….…………….………...…...Causes and Effects in
Basketball
Page 10………….…….Causes and Effects in Basketball
(Pictures)
Page 11……………………………...……………...Problems In Basketball
Page 12……………………………………….…………...Solutions
(Pictures)
Page 13……………………………………….…………………..Autobiography
Glossary
Basketball- A game played between two teams of five
players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through
a netted hoop fixed above each end of the court.
Comparison-T he act or instance of comparing.
Foul- A foul is an infraction of the rules more serious than a
violation. Most fouls occur as a result of illegal personal
contact with an opponent and/or unsportsmanlike behavior.
Solution- Me ans of solving a problem or dealing with a
difficult situation.
Biography-An account of someone's life written by someone
else.
The game of b asketball as it is known today was created
by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891. Basketball is a
simple sport that has been played by professional and minor
league people for over 100 years now. This is an easy game
consisting an orange ball and ten players. The game is
played by each team with five people on the court going back
and forth passing to each other until they try to score a point
or basket as some people call. You score a point by shooting
the ball into an eleven foot high hoop with a rim and net
hanging off of it and if you make it in you score 2-3 points
depending where you shoot from. In the minor leagues you
have four quarters and each quarter has ten minutes each
which means the game last a total of forty minutes and wich
ever team had the most points at the end would win. In the
professional league it is basically the same thing except each
quarter has fifteen minutes. In the game they also have fouls
just like other sports. When you foul someone or make a
foul on the court you get to shoots from the foul line and if
you make it your team scores one point.
Basketball is simple, this is one of the top five easiest
sports according to Americans. This is also one of the top
five easiest sports to learn according to Americans. Since
this is so easy to lean, that means you could be taught easily
accept it is a hard sport to master. First, when learning you
want to learn how to dribble, you can learn how how dribble
just by sitting in a seat and practicing. Then, once you can
do it after sitting then you have to do it while walking, then
do it running. Once you feel comfortable doing that then
you can move on to the next step. After that, you want to
learn how to shoot, you can learn how to do this by starting
to shoot up close and slowly move back until your
comfortable with shooting. Finally, you want to learn how to
steal the ball from other players, you also want to learn what
the fouls are in the game so that you are not fouling the
whole game. After you have learned everything then you can
start to learn some of the little stuff that may help you in the
game, but these are the three main steps in learning the
rules in basketball and learning how to play. Then when you
get really good with basketball then you can start to play
with your friends to try and get better and see how the game
works with other people.
Basketball is completely different from other
sports. How is this different? This is different
because basketball is one of the safest sports in
the U.S. This is the safest sport because it has
reported the least amount of injuries out of any
sport. This sport is also an indoor sport witch
only 25% of sports are indoor, the majority of
them are outside. The sport of basketball is also
a two team sport with five players on each team
and most other sports have eleven or nine
people. Yet that they have all there differences
they also have stuff in common. They have
thing in common like a bunch of other sports
have fouls just like basketball, and almost every
sport is played by two teams. Some sports can
also relate to basketball by being played inside
but not many are.
This picture above is a picture of a basketball court and the
pictures below are picture of other sports fields and courts
and you can obviously see the difference between them.
In the game of basketball there are many cause
and effect events. Some like the simple stuff
like shooting a basketball the cause is it’s being
shot and the effect is that you score a point if
you make it in the basket. But there for there
are also bigger causes and effects like when
someone gets hurt, a team wins a game, and
when your dribbling the ball. In basketball
there’s not a lot of main cause and effects or
anything big. All the cause and effects in
basketball are pretty small.
This picture above is the most common cause
and effect ever used in basketball. This is a
picture of someone dribbling a ball this is the
most common because you use this the entire
game.
In basketball there are not many problems
just like there are not that many cause and
effects problems. Yet there are some. A lot of
them are really small but there are a couple that
are big. Some of the littlest ones happen when
the ball gets stolen from you team then you
have to get it back to keep them from scoring.
But the also have major problems like when
someone gets injured and have to go to the
hospital. Then the solution would be for the
player to get better and be ok. Like I said before
though there are not many problem and
solutions in basketball but this picture below
shows and relates to some problems and
solutions in basketball.
Biography
My name is Carter Minsker and I am 12 years old and I go
to school at East Pennsboro Middle School and I am in sixth
grade. I have 2 pets and they are both cats, a boy and a girl.
One is named Gizzy and the other is named Smokey. My
favorite thing to do is play sports like speed skating,
baseball, and basketball. I also love to make money and get
good grades. When I have free time I play outside with my
friends and in the summer we ride bikes all day and in the
winter we play inside or out in the snow! Also in the summer
my family goes to Hershey Park a lot because we have season
passes and I am a jolly rancher witch means I can ride and
ride in the park. These are my favorite things to do and
some thing about me.
Carter D. Minsker