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- Hi I'm Miss Penny and these are the KidVision Kids
and we're here today to learn how to play Basketball.
- And I'm Jim Crutchfield, I'm the basketball coach
here at Nova Southeastern University,
and I'm excited to be here today
to maybe teach a little basketball,
and maybe make a couple new friends too.
- Great! And who are you?
- Connor Zinaich, I'm a forward here
at Nova Southeastern University.
- Terrific!
- I'm Michael Moore and I'm a point guard here
at Nova Southeastern University.
- Fantastic! Are you ready to learn some basketball?
- Yeah!
- Me too, lets go.
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- Ah, this is going to be fun, but before we get started,
can you tell us about the equipment?
What do we need to play basketball?
- Well first of all, you need to come out
dressed ready to play basketball,
and probably the most important thing
is a nice pair of shoes- tennis shoes.
Looks like you guys have all got that covered.
A comfortable pair of shorts,
a comfortable shirt, and I think you guys
are all dressed for that too.
If you ever join a team, you might even
be wearing a jersey with a number on it.
- Can you choose any number you want?
- That's a good question Miss. Penny,
because sometimes they can, and sometimes they can't.
Because if they join a team
where someone already has that number,
then they'll have to pick another number
beside their favorite number.
- So it could even be like, thirty seven?
- Well actually Miss. Penny, you can't have a number
above a five on a jersey. Everything has to be
between zero and five in basketball,
so when officials go to the scores table,
they can say with their fingers
on number five through zero,
and they can't have to make six with two hands.
- He has a ten?
- That's a one and a zero.
- Ohh! I see.
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A one and a zero, okay, good.
- We definitely have to have a basketball,
and you can see sometimes
they have just the right amount of air in them,
and sometimes they're a little flat.
- How can you tell if it's flat?
- Well when you drop it, if it doesn't come back to ya,
it doesn't have enough air in it.
- And what other things do we need to play the game?
- Well you're going to have to have a basketball hoop,
some people call that a hoop,
and some people call it a rim.
Believe it or not, you can actually fit two basketballs
at the same time, through that basket or that hoop.
It has a net that hangs from it,
and it's attached to what we call the backboard.
Up on top you'll see there's a clock,
that tells you how much time you have to make a shot.
- So to play a game of basketball, say on a playground,
you would just need good clothes, shoes, shorts,
a comfortable shirt, a basketball, and a hoop?
- Yep, and some friends.
- And some friends, that sounds great.
Maybe we can learn some basketball moves now.
- Sure.
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- I love basketball and I'm glad
we're here to learn how to play.
And so to play, we need to learn some skills.
What skills are important to know
when we're playing basketball?
- First you have to know how to dribble.
Which is bouncing the ball to get to
a certain location on the court.
You always want to keep your head up,
so you know where you're going and what's around you.
Also, you need to know how to shoot,
and you always want to keep your elbow tucked
and ready to shoot at all time.
- Passing is a key skill for when you're trying
to find a teammate who's open for a shot,
or when you're in the paint, you can kick it out
behind the three pointer for your teammate
to score three points.
And making a layup is key when you're in the paint,
for three points, and when you're close enough
to the rim, that's a skill that you need to be able to do.
- So, so far we learned about four skills
what were those skills, do you remember?
Dribbling,
- Um, passing
- Passing,
- Shooting
- Shooting,
- And making a layup.
- What other skills might we need to know?
Those are just the offensive skills,
so now lets talk about the defense.
You need to be able to steal the ball,
which is taking the ball away from your opponent,
and as well as blocking a shot,
which is slapping the ball before they can even score
or try to shoot it.
- Two other skills are rebounding,
which is when the other team,
where your team shoots the ball
and it hits the rim or the backboard and you grab it
if you're on offense, you can put it back up,
if you're on defense, you have to dribble the ball
to the other end of the court to score.
And dunking, if you're tall enough and athletic enough,
that's when you take the ball and you slam it into the hoop,
and if you hang on the rim, you hang on the rim.
- Ah, you get to be the real winner
- Yep
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- But we have a lot to learn. Are you ready?
- Yes
- Let's practice them one at a time, okay?
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- Whew! We did a lot of work!
You did a good job, thanks for teaching us.
Now lets learn a little bit about the court,
so that we can play a game.
- Sounds good
- Alright
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- Great! Wow we are learning a lot about basketball,
we learned how to do our skills,
we learned what clothes we need to wear,
and now we're going to learn about the court itself.
So we have the women's basketball team here from NSU
to tell us a little bit about it.
- I'm Coach Freeland, I'm the head coach
here at Nova Southeastern, welcome kids.
- Thank you
- My name's Alison and my position is a shooting guard
- And my name's Claire, and I'm a post player.
- So now I think it's a good time to learn
about the lines on the court.
So maybe if you don't mind, if you could explain to us why
the lines on the court are here and what we do there.
- Sure, well the first line we're going to talk about,
is the half court line.
And this line separates the court in half.
So one team is trying to score on that basket,
and then the other team is trying to score on this basket.
So that's why its divided in half.
- Terrific. What lines are on the court itself?
- Well we have these sidelines, and then the baselines.
So that is basically, just shows the players
where the court is.
- So if you're on the, you have to be within
the sidelines and the baselines to play.
If you're outside it's out of play.
- Of course.
- So we have to stay in the lines when we play,
you got it? Okay, and then I see
that there's an arc, there's a couple of arcs.
What do they mean?
- Well the arc that's on the furthest out,
that's the three point line, or the three point arc
so anyone who shoots a basket behind that line
gets three points
- And how many points do you normally get
when you shoot a basket?
- Well you can get one point for a free throw,
two points for any shot made inside the arc,
and then three points for any shot
that's outside of the arc.
- What does "in the paint" mean?
- Well if you see, under the basket,
the color of the floors a little different,
so on our court it's blue.
So anytime you go inside that paint,
you only can be in there if you're on the offensive team
trying to score for three seconds.
So if you're in there longer than three seconds,
then the official will blow the whistle,
and you lose the ball.
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- The referee Miss T is here,
she makes sure everyone plays by the rules.
Are you ready?
- Yeah!
- Lets get this party started.
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- Well thank you very much ladies,
we really learned a lot about basketball,
and had a great time doing it.
- Well thank you for coming today
and including us, it was a pleasure.
- NSU is a wonderful place to learn, thank you
- Thank you
- Bye!