Lingo you should know - Basketball Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
There's something called an and one, so when someone goes in for a layup and they get fouled, if they make the shot but they get fouled while they're making the shot, then they get to also make foul shots. Foul shots, singular. There's also such a thing as a pick and roll, which is where you have on offense, someone has the ball, another member of the offense comes and sets a screen, whoever has the ball comes by the screen, the screen rolls off to the ball, grabs the ball as it goes down the court and goes into the layup. Oh my gosh, goes to the hoop for a layup or a shot.
Video 2 Transcript
Shot clock is another good lingo thing for basketball. When the team on offense receives the ball, they have, well at least in college basketball, they have 30 seconds to get the ball, to allow the ball to at least touch the rim. You want to make a basket ideally, but if the ball touches the rim then you can rebound it and the offensive team can still have a chance to shoot. So anyways, if those 30 seconds run out and no shot has been made, no rim has been touched, the ball turns over to other team. If someone shoots the basketball and just like rams the backboard, but like doesn't hit the rim at all and just shoots off, they call that a brick. It's not a good thing. There's such a thing as an assist to turnover ratio, which basically means that you want more assists than you have turnovers. So if you have a high assist to turnover ratio, that's a good thing. That means that you have more assists than you have turnovers.
Video 3 Transcript
Recently, I've learned what flagrant is because I'm watching March Madness, and there's been lots of flagrants. So flagrant is, there's a flagrant one and a flagrant two. If you get a flagrant one, then the other team gets to shoot free throws, and then they start with the ball. If you get a flagrant two, the other team gets to shoot free throws, start with the ball, and that player gets ejected, so you don't want that. But basically, it's when there's any kind of like foul issue, but then it seems like excessive in nature, or like it was intentional, or it was going to hurt you, or something. Another thing I've learned from watching March Madness is when, as a wedgie, which is where the ball gets shot into the hoop, and then gets perfectly stuck in between the rim and the backboard. And then do they, do they get to shoot again? They get the ball again? Then it's a jump ball. It's jump ball if, if it gets a wedgie. Another lingo I learned recently from watching March Madness is points in the paint, quote, points on, in the paint, which means points that are made inside the key, inside the key part. So like if you're like running it in to like make a layup or do whatever, like that would be a point in the paint. But if you're shooting like a three pointer from outside the key, that would not be a point in the paint. And apparently it looks really good when your team has lots of points in the paint, so.
