Coaches, make sure your players know the terms you say frequently during practices so they know what you mean during a game.
Here are just a few terms to get you started.
Assist - A pass to another basketball player that leads directly to a made basket.
Backboard - The rectangular piece of wood or fiberglass that the rim attaches to.
Block Out or Box Out - Getting your body between the basketball player and the basket to get a rebound.
Bounce Pass - In this pass, the basketball bounces about two-thirds of the way from the passer to the receiver.
Carry the Ball - similar to traveling. When a basketball player moves with the ball without properly dribbling it.
Charging - an offensive foul which occurs when an offensive basketball player runs into a defender who has established position.
Chest Pass - the basketball is passed directly from the passer's chest to the receiver's chest. This has the advantage that it takes the least time to complete, as the passer tries to pass as directly straight as possible.
Court - the area bounded by 2 sidelines and 2 end lines containing a basket at each end, in which a basketball game is played.
Defense - the act of preventing the offense from scoring; the basketball team without the ball.
Dribbling - the act of bouncing the basketball continuously.
Field Goal - when the basketball enters the basket from above during play; worth 2 points, or 3 points if the shooter was standing behind the 3-point line.
Layup - a close up shot taken after dribbling to the basket.
Offense - the team with possession of the basketball.
Personal Foul - contact between basketball players that may result in injury or provide one team with an unfair advantage; players may not push, hold, trip, hack, elbow, restrain or charge into an opponent.
Rebound - when a basketball player grabs a ball that is coming off the rim or backboard after a shot attempt; see offensive rebound and defensive rebound.
Screen or Pick - when the offensive basketball player stands between a teammate and a defender to give his teammate the chance to take an open shot.
Traveling - when the ball handler takes too many steps without dribbling; also called walking.
And my personal favorite...
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.
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