PEH

• Team sport


  An activity in which individuals on the same team, work together to win
• Team sports


  • Promote fair play
  • Build character of an individual
• Team sports


  • Basketball
  • Volleyball
  • Baseball
• Teamwork


  A skill we use our whole life
• Playing team sports at young age allows children to participate in social activities, interact and work together, to achieve goals and build skills such as teamwork and leadership
• Basketball


  A team sport, wherein the objective is to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules

  
• Basketball


  • Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end
  • One of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports
• Basketball hoop


  A regulation basketball hoop consists of a rim 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard
• Field goal


  • A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play
  • Scores two points if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points if the player is behind the three-point line
• Advancing the ball


  Can be done by bouncing it while walking or running (dribbling) or throwing (passing) it to a team mate
• It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball (travelling), to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands than resume dribbling (double dribble)
• Fouls


  • Disruptive physical contact (a personal foul) is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball
  • A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or coach
• Basketball techniques


  • Shooting
  • Passing
  • Dribbling
  • Rebounding

  
• Player positions


  • Tallest members play "center," "power forward," or "small forward" positions
  • Shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed play "point guard" or "shooting guard"
• Competitive basketball is primarily an indoor sport played on a carefully marked and maintained basketball court, but less regulated variations are often played outdoors in both inner city and remote areas
• Basketball was invented by James Naismith, Canadian clergyman, educator, and physician in Springfield, Massachusetts


  December 1891
• The first ball used was a soccer ball played by nine players, and the goals were wooden peach baskets affixed to the walls
• By 1897-1898, teams of five became standard
• The game rapidly spread worldwide and to Canada and other parts of the world, played by both women and men; it also became a popular informal outdoor game
• U.S. servicemen in WWII (1939-1945) popularized the sport in many other countries
• Basketball was introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period with the first American teachers teaching the sport along with baseball through the YMCA and the school system
• Basketball was first introduced to the Philippine public school system by the Americans as a women's sport in 1910 and was played in interscholastic meets in 1911 until 1913
• Women's basketball met opposition from conservative groups, particularly the Catholic Church who view bloomers worn by women basketball players as inappropriate
• By the time skirts were allowed to be worn above bloomers as a compromise, women's basketball was already in decline and was only played in provincial and local interscholastic meets
• The first men's national team – organized in the 1910s – won the first Far Eastern Championship Games in 1913
• The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which had basketball as its main sport, was established in 1924
• The Philippines became a member of FIBA through the Basketball Association of the Philippines in 1936
• The Philippines made their debut in the Olympic Games in 1936 where they finished fifth, the best result of an Asian team in Olympic basketball history
• In the same year, the first basketball stamp in the world was released by the country
• The first commercial league was the basketball tournament of the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association (MICAA) which was established in 1938
• The Philippines became an independent country in 1946, and in the 1950s, the national team did well in international tournaments
• The Philippine team won the gold medal at the Asian Games in 1951, the first-time basketball was played
• The Philippine basketball team dominated the Asian Games until 1962

  
• In the 1954 FIBA World Championship the Philippines placed third, winning the bronze medal, the best performance by an Asian team in the World Championship
• Carlos Loyzaga finished as the world tournament's third leading scorer (148 points/16.4 points per game) and was named in the FIBA World Mythical Five Selection
• In the 1960s, the first FIBA Asia Championship was won by the Philippines with Carlos Badion as the tournament's Most Valuable Player
• The Philippines won the right to host the third FIBA World Championship, but were suspended after then-President Diosdado Macapagal, father of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, refused to issue visas to players from communist countries (notably basketball powerhouse Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union)
• The Philippines' dominance in sport waned after Carlos Loyzaga's retirement, and had performed poorly in the Olympic Games where the national team was unable to break into top-10 positions
• The commercial league model pioneered by the MICAA continued with the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) in 1975 and the Philippine Amateur Basketball League (PABL) in 1983
• The PBA is the first professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA