" Free throw line", ("charity stripe") is the line you must stand behind when shooting a free-throw. There is no restriction on the time defensive players can occupy the paint. If your offensive player has a foot on, or inside these lines for 3 seconds or longer, he will be called for the 3-second violation. The " paint" is the area inside the lane lines from the baseline to the free-throw line. If any one has a term to add to this list, or disagrees with my definition, please email me.įirst, lets look at the "half-court" diagram to define areas of the floor. a "screen" and a "pick" (same thing to me).
Realize that sometimes coaches don't completely agree on what something means, and sometimes we have more than one term for the same thing. This page will be like a basketball dictionary, defining basketball terms.
#BASKETBALL TERM INITIATER TV#
A colorful TV commentator (Al McGuire and his "aircraft carrier", Dick Vitale, etc) come up with very colorful expressions, and it becomes part of the game. An expert coach uses some new term at a basketball camp, and it becomes part of the vernacular. How do we come up with all these terms? It is an evolutionary process over the years. Studying to become a doctor, you first have to know the names of all the parts before you can operate on them! A novice could listen to two coaches talking to each other and not have any idea of what they are talking about! This is true in almost any subject. Like any sport or discipline, basketball has its own language.
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