BASKETBALL SHOOTING

Dec 16, 2020, 2585 Words  8 Pages

Basketball Shooting - The Art & Science of Shooting a Basketball

Basketball Shooting Is Both Art and Science

Fundamentals of Shooting A Basketball

By Coach Jerry Tarkanian

Shooting a basketball is both an art and a science. Basketball shooting is an art form

because it involves finely tuned hand-eye coordination rather than gross motor skills.

For example, unlike such skills as the defensive stance and

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Shooting a basketball is also a science because it involves such mechanical

processes as depth perception, velocity, angle of release, and trajectory of the

ball in flight. The comic strip Mary Worth once featured an episode about a brilliant

mathematics student who became an outstanding shooter on his basketball team because