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• Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada.
• The concept of basketball was born from Naismith’s school days in the area where he played a simple child’s game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse.
• BALL HANDLING All players love to handle the ball, particularly dribbling and shooting and the main skills that helps a player develop into a great dribbler, passer and shooter is ball handling skills.
• CATCHING There are three ways to catch the call: (1) With the feet, (2) With the eyes, (3) With the fingers. In other words, the players must move toward the ball as it is in the air, look at the ball into his hands and catch the ball with arms bent, by letting it hit his thumbs must be spread wide (normal ball handling skill) and when the fingers close around the ball they grip the ball.
• PASSING is the quickest way to move the basketball but is the least liked by many players, especially those just learning the game. Most players would rather dribble or shoot the ball than give it up but eventually they learn that by passing the ball to others when they are open then teammates will pass the ball to them when they are open.
• THE ONE HANDED PUSH PASS It is the quickest pass in basketball, either from a standing position or off the dribble, and is mainly used round the perimeter of the offence (outside the lane). The position of the hands on the ball is similar to that for shooting the ball, one hand (the passing hand) is behind the ball and the other (the guiding hand) on the side of the ball, always ensuring correct ball handling and grip.
• THE TWO HANDED CHEST PASS  This is often the first pass taught to beginners because, supposedly, two arms are stronger than one for small children. However, children usually find the technique a little difficult to learn, especially the positioning of “little hands” on each side of the ball. The Chest Pass is used around the perimeter of the offence and for medium distance passes.
• BOUNCE PASS This pass may be executed with either a one handed or two handed pass and is used to pass the ball by a defender who may able to get a hand into a passing lane. It is only used over short distance because of its slow action. Whilst this type of pass is sometimes used on the perimeter (because the pass is slower than a direct pass due to the ball having to go down to the floor and then up again to the receiver) it is not recommended as a perimeter pass where quickness is desirable and it is more used to pass the pass inside to a player in the lane.
• Bounce pass It is also used to get the ball past a close defender on the ball handler and here again footwork is all important, especially the skill of using a pivot to step around the defender to create a passing angle.
• THE OVERHEAD (SKIP) PASS This pass is used to reverse the ball from one side of the court to the other over the top of the lane and the defense. However, the pass requires more strength in the arms due to their whipping action and also having to hold the ball overhead so it is advisable to only apply this pass when the players have some body size and strength in the arms.
• THE BASEBALL PASS It is used to make a long pass down court, usually on a fast break, and requires both distance and accuracy. Similar to the Skip Pass, this pass requires arm strength and body size and not is not recommended for young children and beginners.
• THE CURL (POST) PASS It is used specifically to feed the ball to the low post player, and sometime to the high post. It is in reality a bounce passes over a short distance and designed to get by close defence.
• Curl ( post ) pass This pass is meant to be made low, into the space away from the post defence. Many players try to feed the low post with a high pass and this only allows the post defence to get a hand on the ball (the post defence has his hands high and if the low post player has successfully pinned the defence then he will be low and wide and needs to receive the ball around knee height
• Curl (Post) Pass It is used specifically to feed the ball to the low post player, and sometime to the high post. It is in reality a bounce passes over a short distance and designed to get by close defence. There is a similarity to the One Handed Pass in the hands on the ball are the same, the player steps with the same movement, that is using the foot on the side of the passing hand but the hand position on release is slightly different.