basketball rules for kids
Basketball Rules for Kids
Basketball like any other sport, requires that you play the game in order to know the technicalities and the rules by heart. If you're enrolling for the tryouts for your school, it would be wise to catch up on the rules and penalties of this game, so that you can put your best foot forward for the upcoming trial.
- The key factor to be kept in mind while dribbling, is that you should never hold the ball with both your hands, while you are moving forward with the ball.
- If and when the player holds the ball with both hands, he has to stop and fix both his feet firmly on the ground so as to avoid any further movements.
- In case he leaves a leg free for movement while the other is fixed to the point of stopping, then it is called the pivot stance. Having once stopped at a particular spot, the player will need to pass the ball to his fellow team member or shoot to attempt for a basket.
- It's considered as a 'Traveling Violation', if the player is found running with the ball without dribbling. If a player grabs the ball with both hands and then attempts to dribble the second time, it constitutes a 'Double Dribble Violation'. After any violation, the possession of the ball changes from the team that commits the violation, to the other team.
- Sometimes, the player with the possession may suddenly stop, in which case he may either pass the ball, or shoot, or hold the ball by crouching forward in a protective stance. This way the ball will remain in possession of the player until either someone takes the ball away or until the referee puts a stop to it.
- The player in possession of the ball cannot carry the ball, which means that he cannot hold the ball from underneath and then resume dribbling. This is known as a 'Carrying-Violation'.
- The player with the possession of the ball can interchange his hands while dribbling. This prevents the ball from being slid out of control by an opponent.
- The ball must stay within the boundary line of the court, while it's within the possession of the offensive player, else it constitutes an 'Out-of-Bounds-Violation'.
- A 'Backcourt Violation' occurs when the offensive player with the ball possession tries to dribble the ball back from his offensive half of the court to his defensive half of the court. The only way the offensive team can return to their own side of the court is when the ball is brought in by the defensive team.
- The defensive team need to make sure that they do not commit any foul. If any defensive team player tries to touch the offensive player in a way that it interferes with his shot while attempting a basket, it will be called out as a foul. The penalty will include 2 free shots from the center and 3 free shots in case the shot was attempted from beyond the three-point arc.
- When 6 non-basket fouls are committed by the defensive team, within any quarter of the game, then the offensive team gets 2 free shots from the free throw line.
- A player will be eliminated from the game if he makes 5 fouls at any point in the game.