Lesson 3

• Different Sports Categories

  • Individual Sports
  • Dual Sports
  • Team Sports
• Dr. James Naismith


  Inventor of basketball
• Dr. James Naismith was born in 1861 in Ramsay township
• Dr. James Naismith's first basketball concept was "duck-on-a-rock"
• Basketball was born at the YMCA Training School in Massachusetts, USA


  1891
• Basketball


  • Running game
  • Players must continually move, but not always at high speed
  • 3 kinds of movement: walk, run, and sprint
• Basic offense in basketball


  Take the ball to the open spaces, away from the defense to score more easily
• 3 main steps to developing a basketball player

  1. Understanding the basic concept

  2. Teaching good decision making

  3. Learning the skills of the game
• Most of the great basketball players today are not necessarily athletic or best skilled, but they are the best decision makers
• Basketball is a moving game, not a game for statues
• In basketball

  • In Offense - attempting to score
  • In Defense - prevent the other team from scoring
• Ball Handling


  • All players love to handle the ball, particularly dribbling and shooting
  • Main skill that helps a player to develop into a great dribbler, passer, and shooter is practicing ball handling
• Catching the ball


  • Players must move toward the ball as it is in the air
  • Look at the ball into his hand
  • Catch the ball, with arms bent, by letting it hit his thumbs and then closing his fingers around the ball
• 3 ways to catch the ball


  • With the feet
  • With the eyes
  • With the fingers
• Basketball Passes


  • Bounce Pass
  • Chest Pass
  • Overhead Pass
• Bounce Pass


  The passer bounces the ball crisply about two-thirds of the way from his own chest to the receiver
• Chest Pass


  The ball is passed directly from the passer's chest to the receiver's chest
• Overhead Pass


  This type of pass is useful when being marked tightly or when considerably taller than the defender
• Basketball Court


  • Flat, rectangular surface with baskets at opposite ends
• Basketball Basket


  • Steel rim 18 inches in diameter with an attached backboard measuring 6 feet by 3.5 feet