Talk:Basketball/Archive 1

message: I replaced the following text.  The winning score for street games varies a lot; I doubt "usually" is really valid for any one score. Mark Foskey
Usually, the first team to reach fifteen points wins, but this is based on a system where each short range basket counts for one point, long range ones for two. When the universal scoring system is used (2 points for short range shots, three for long range ones), street teams might set the game to be played for the first team to reach 30 points, although sometimes they play for 20, 40, 50, 60 or any amount of points that the players desire to play up to. Free throws (one point shots in the professional leagues and tournaments) are usually waved off on street games.
Basketball is a ball sport played by two teams of five players on a side - does anybody play half-court any more, with six players on each team but only three can cross the halfcourt line? RickK 05:14, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Replaced street game text

message: I think that the picture showing a front view of a basketball goal is incorrect--the distance of 3.05 meters should be from the ground to the rim, not from the ground to the bottom of the backboard.  — Braaropolis | Talk 00:23, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect picture

message: where are the terms like rebound, assist, and the like defined in this article?--Alsocal 19:46, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terms 

message: both names were used by the same touring squad.  i believe NY more so.
Sfahey 16:12, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  New York/Harlem Rens 

message: Should mention that dribbling was not originally part of the game.  --Daniel C. Boyer 16:28, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that was an interesting addition to the original rules, which required players to advance the ball only by passing it. Someone decided to "pass it to himself", and this idea became modified to require that the ball hit the floor before one caught his own pass. Bob Cousy added the behind the back dribble fifty years later, and now .....  Sfahey 03:38, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dribbling 

message: Contributor 128.172.213.85 posted a change saying that the team foul limit, by NBA rule changes, is 5.  I just want to verify a source for that - I did a quick search of the NBA website on Google which returned no rule changes since 2002; and according to NBA's rules and regulations section 12 the limit is still 4.
The team foul limit of 4 does mean that free throws don't occur till the fifth team foul.  A team must surpass the limit in order to be penalized with the penalty situation, thus the 4th foul, which is the limit, incurs no extra penalty.  Both FIBA and NBA rules account for this.
That's what I think.  Correct me if I'm wrong. —Neonumbers 10:32, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Team foul penalty situation 

message: The international basketball rule change in I think is was 2003 means that the broken semicircle inside the key is no longer there.  The jump ball circles at either end are never used because it has been replaced by the alternating posession rule.  The solid line semicircle is still there as it determines the zone where the free throw shooter is allowed (and maybe to maintain the traditional look of a court).
Can someone please change that picture? Neonumbers 10:41, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basketball Court 

message: In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie hints that basketball may predate Naismith's "invention"--is there any evidence to support this or is he just taking poetic license?
* A long time ago, I read about an ancient game played by the Aztecs (or maybe the Mayas, I don't remember).  The game involved a ball and a ring placed on a wall, but the ring was rotated 90 degrees, such that a ball would have to travel horizontally and parallel to the wall to go through the ring.  Whether this could be considered a precursor to basketball is debatable.  As I recall, the game was closer to soccer, as the ball had to be kicked through the ring. Simishag 01:17, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  People's History of Basketball? 

message: Is it true or a myth that in the first games of basketball, a complete basket, without a hole at the bottom, was used?  The story goes on to say that someone ended up breaking through the bottom of the basket.  Once the players realized the significance of this change, they went ahead and punched a hole through the other one.  This doesn't seem very likely to be true, but still funny. -- Myria 04:32, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hole in the basket? 

message: The list was getting far too long for an overview article, so I moved it to List of National Basketball Association players by country.  Also, I removed the following paragraph, as it is too specific for a history overview:
:Here are just a few of the outstanding international players who have played or still play in the NBA:
Many outstanding non-US players, including Serbia and Montenegro's Dejan Bodiroga and past Olympian Oscar Schmidt of Brazil, have chosen to decline NBA opportunities. Jasikevicius himself only joined the NBA in 2005 after playing in Europe for seven seasons, the last three of which ended in Euroleague titles for the team he was with.''
Neonumbers 10:23, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed list of international NBA players