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Basketball is a sport played by 2-5player teams. The goal is to score points by dropping a ball through a hoop 10 feet off the ground. Basketball has increased in popularity over the years and is now one of the most well-known sports worldwide. Various methods used in basketball include dribbling, shooting and passing. There are many various shooting techniques used in basketball to get points, let us look at a couple essential ones.

A layup is a shot that is carried out by leaping from under the net, pushing the ball up close to the basket and tipping it over the rim and into the basket with one hand. Alternatively the ball might be bounced off the backboard instead and into the basket. All moves involving this sort of one-handed reach and action is called a layup and is considered the most basic shot in basketball.

Basically there are 2 kinds of layups, the underarm layup and the over arm layup. While there are quite a few various kinds of layups, they all fall into one of these 2 categories.

An undefended layup is a very successful shot and is when the ball handler manages to get up to the basket without a defender going up as well to attempt to block him off. The major difficulty in performing a layup shot is going around the blocks of the taller defenders as such if the shot is unblocked it will definitely be more successful.

A slam dunk that is perhaps the most well-known of all basketball shots is basically a layup performed by a player tall enough to reach over the rim of the basket, who then drops or slams the ball into the basket from above rather than just tipping it over the rim. A safer layup is done by holding the ball in both hands instead of only one and taking 2 steps to the basket.

The finger-roll is a kind of underarm layup which involves the use of the wrist and the fingers to ‘lay’ the ball in the basket. The motion of the wrist and fingers causes the ball to rotate and roll around the rim before falling into the basket.

A jump shot is another popular basketball move in which the player jumps straight up and throws the ball while in mid-air into the basket. The jump shot is thought to be the simplest long-range shot and has the benefit of being hard for a defender to block however, taller defenders will make it a tricky move to do. A variation of the jump shot is a turnaround jump shot in which a player twists in mid-air to make the shot

Another basketball shot is the bank shot which relies on the backboard for putting the ball into the basket. It is mainly used in mid-range jump shots. The aim of the bank shot is to hit the backboard at an angle that slows the ball down and increases the possibility of it falling through the basket.