Baby Hook
The baby hook in basketball shooting branches off from the evolution of the classical sky hook. This basketball shooting form resembles the skyhook in that it still relies on your shoulders to separate the basketball from the defender. It differs from the skyhook mainly because you are now using your wrist instead of your arm in terms of shooting the basketball towards the hoop.
Bank Shot
a shot where the ball is first bounced (or banked) off the backboard at such an angle that it then drops into the basket.
BEEF
Balance, Eyes, Elbow, Follow Through
Buzzer beater
A basket in the final seconds of a game (right before the buzzer sounds) that in itself results in a win or overtime.
Double Nickel
To accumulate 55 points.
Dunk:
when a player close to the basket jumps and strongly throws the ball down into it; an athletic, creative shot used to intimidate opponents.
Fade Away
People change from calling it the "fall-away" in the last era to calling it the "fade-away." Whatever it is called, it is indisputably the deadliest perimeter basketball move that many NBA basketball players use and abuse. Essentially, it is a jump shot done while you jump or step backward. It seems simple but it deems tough.
Field Goal:
when the ball enters the basket from above during play; worth 2 points, or 3 points if the shooter was standing behind the 3-point line.
Four-point play
A rare play in which a player is fouled while making a three-point shot and then makes the resulting free throw.
Free throw
An unopposed attempt to score a basket, worth one point, from the free throw line. Generally, two attempts are awarded when the player is fouled in the act of shooting (three attempts are awarded in the case of three point shot), fouled flagrantly, or when the opposing team fouls while over the foul limit. One attempt is awarded for technical fouls ;it is worth 1 point.
Finger roll
A finger roll is an upgrade version of a lay-up - it is executed underhand with a strong forward spin without using the backboard.
Granny shot
An underhand shot taken using both hands, usually as a free throw.
High percentage shot:
a shot that is likely to go in the basket, such as a layup.
Hook Shot
Inside shooting:
shots taken by a player near or under the basket.
Jump shot | Jumper
A shot taken while jumping
Lay-in
A close-range shot using one hand to tip the ball over the rim
Layup
A close-range shot using one hand to bank the ball off the backboard
Leaner
Also known as a leaning jump shot, it is a basketball shooting technique in which you combine a forward jump towards the basketball hoop with a set shot while drawing contact from your defender.
Lower percentage shot:
a shot that is less likely to go in the basket, such as one thrown by a player who is off balance or outside his shooting range.
1-and-1 or 1-plus-1:
in college, a free-throw attempt awarded for certain violations that earns the shooter a 2nd attempt only if the first is successful.
Outside shooting:
shots taken from the perimeter.
Points in the paint
Field goals made in the painted area below the free-throw line
Release:
the moment that the ball leaves a shooter's hands.
Reverse Lay Up
Reverse lay-up, or simply the reverse, is a lay-up using the backboard and done with your back facing the basketball hoop and often your defender after you blow by him.
Scoring opportunity:
when a player gets open for a shot that is likely to score.
Shooter:
a player who takes a shot at the basket.
Shooter's roll:
the ability to get even an inaccurate shot to bounce lightly off the rim and into the basket
Shooting range:
the distance from which a player is likely to make his shots.
Sky Hook
Kareem Abdul Jabbar almost ruled the 80s with this basketball shooting technique, the sky hook basketball shot. Similar to the baby hook, the sky hook uses the shoulder to screen the defender from the ball and create shooting room for the basketball shooting player. The biggest difference is that it utilizes the upper arm power, a leap slightly towards the defender, and the basketball shot has a higher arc.
Slam dunk:
see dunk.
Tear DropThe basketball shooting technique called "tear drop" is also referred to as the floater. Both of them are very descriptive names in that the basketball shot seems to "float" over the defender and drop into the hoop so lightly as if it were a drop of tears. It is an alternate basketball shooting move in a layup where you take the step-and-a-half early and while jumping forward, you shoot the basketball over your defender before he jumps.
3-point play:
a 2-point field goal followed by a successful free-throw.
3-point shot:
a field goal worth 3 points because the shooter had both feet on the floor behind the 3-point line when he released the ball; also counts if one foot is behind the line while the other is in the air.
Set shot
A shot taken without leaving the floor.
Swish
(n) A shot which goes through the net without hitting the backboard or rim. (v) To make a swish.
Three-point field goal
A shot, worth three points, attempted with both feet behind the three-point line.
Three-pointer
A three-point field goal
Trey
A three-point field goal
Three-point play
(1) A play in which a shooter is fouled while making a two-point shot and then makes the resulting free throw. (also and one). (2) (rarely) When a shooter is fouled while taking but missing a three-point shot and then makes all three free throws.
Toilet Bowl
When the ball hits the rim on a certain angle and then circles around it, can go in or out.
Up And Under
Whatever the name by which it is called, the up and under basketball shooting move consists of not two but three phases: The 'up' phase, the 'hang' phase, and the 'under' phase. Basically, you leap and fake a lay-up in the air by holding the ball up, get by your defender in the air, and do an actual lay-up in a second timing before you land.
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