where did the term "dimes" in basketball (referring to assists) come from?
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About 30 years ago, a telephone call from a public telephone booth cost a dime. So an assist is referred to as a dime because the guy dishing out the assist is hooking up the scorer.
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basketball, game played generally indoors by two opposing teams of five players each. Basketball was conceived in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA college in Springfield, Mass., as a way to condition outdoor athletes during the winter months. His original list of 13 rules has undergone a century of revision, leading to faster pacing and greater athleticism. Today basketball is one of the most popular American sports and one the rest of the world has adopted.\nBasic Rules\n\nAt each end of the court—usually about 92 ft (28 m) long and 50 ft (15 m) wide—is a bottomless basket made of white cord net and suspended from a metal ring, 18 in. (46 cm) in diameter, which is attached 10 ft (3.05 m) above the floor (usually hardwood) to a backboard made of fiberglass, wood, or other material. Players may throw, dribble (bounce), or shoot the basketball (an inflated ball usually made of leather or rubber) but may not run with it or kick it.\n\nTeams try to advance the ball and shoot it through one basket (the ball must enter from above) and to keep the opposition from scoring through the other. Each field goal, or basket, scores two points, or three points if shot from beyond a specified distance (21 ft/6 m in U.S. colleges, slightly longer in international and professional play). Teams must shoot the ball within a prescribed time limit (24 sec in the National Basketball Association; 30 sec in international games and in most women's play; 45 sec in men's collegiate play).\n\nAny player making illegal body contact with an opposing player is assessed a foul; the opposing team may be given possession of the ball, or an opposing player awarded free throws at the basket from the foul line. Each made foul shot is worth one point. Players who exceed the foul limit (usually five, but six in the NBA) are disqualified from the game. International and collegiate basketball games have two 20-min halves, professionals play four 12-min quarters, and high schoolers play four 8-min quarters.
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The ref was correct, in my opinion.\n\nHere are some of the pertentent free throw rules for the NBA (I know, not college or high school, but I believe that they are similar):\n\na. After the ball is placed at the disposal of a free throw shooter, his attempt shall be within 10 seconds in such a way that the ball enters the basket or touches the ring before it is touched by a player. The shooter shall be within that part of the free throw circle behind the free throw line. \n\nc. A player who occupies a free throw lane space shall not touch the floor on or across the free throw lane line, nor shall any player 'back out' more than 3' from the free throw lane line. A player who does not occupy a free throw lane space must remain behind the three-point line. This restriction applies until the ball leaves the free thrower's hands. \n\nThese two rules might be slightly different for college or high school ball, but I am not sure.\n\nNow, here is the ruling on penalties levied:\n\n(6) If there is a free throw violation by each team, on a free throw which is to remain in play, the ball becomes dead, no point can be scored and play shall be resumed by a jump ball between any two opponents at the center circle. \n\nThese are NBA rules, but I believe that, though the mechanics might be a little different (jump ball, for example), the generalities are still the same for college and high school.\n\nThe shooter and the defender both violated rules, and there is no precendent for one rule or the other, and so the ball becomes dead, perhaps, in this case, being awarded to the other team?
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A triple double is a basketball term, defined defined as an individual performance in a game which a player accumalates double digit totals (i.e. 10 or more) in any of these THREE categories points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blockedshots.\n\n\nIt usually happens with points rebounds and assists
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Excessive Timeouts\nDelay-of-Game \nSubstitutions \nBasket Ring, Backboard or Support\nConduct\nFighting Fouls\n\nSee Sections I-VI in the link below
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Down here...in Memphis...it isn't good if a guy calls you a dime piece.  It means that you are fine as hell but you getting tossed between different guys.\n\n\nAnywho you gotta check out\n\nwww.urbandictionary.com\n\n\n\nYou'll be overwhelmed.
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In 1895, William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head.\n\nDuring a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport.
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Yh, 1 question: What has this got to do with Basketball??
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As the previous answerer said....however, in simple terms.\nMost often used against the man-to -man defense, the dribbler runs his defender off of a screen/pick set by one of his offensive players.  the screener then rolls toward the basket looking for a pass and easy basket.
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The "pick and roll" (also called "screen and roll" or shortened to "screen-roll") in basketball, is an offensive play in which a player sets a screen (pick) for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender (rolls) to accept a pass.
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think there are four names worthy of mention here: \n\ndr. j for inventing the art form.\n\ndominic wilkens for  bringing it into our living rooms virtually everynight, i.e. the human highlight, on sportscenter.\n\nmj.  period.  \n\nwould also give spud webb honorable mention for being able to dunk like that (makes the rest of us look pretty bad because if he can do it why can't we? :)
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I believe it is where the hands of a player touch the rim at the same time as they are touching the ball milliseconds before the ball goes through the net. It usually occurs when a player jumps up, has his hands on the rim for a few seconds while slamming the basketball in, and perhaps after that keeps hanging on the rim for a couple more seconds.
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ATR means ABOVE THE RIM.\nits refers to dunking the ball =]
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The three-point rule was first tested in a 1945 National Collegiate Athletic Association game between Columbia and Fordham. But professional basketball would be the first to adopt the rule on a permanent basis. The short-lived American Basketball League did so in 1961, and the Eastern Professional Basketball League followed in its 1963-64 season. The three-point shot later became popularized by the ABA after its introduction in 1968. During the 1970s, the ABA would use the three-point shot, along with the slam dunk, as a marketing tool to compete with the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the 1979–80 season, the NBA officially adopted the three-point shot. On October 12, 1979, Chris Ford scored the NBA's first three-point shot. The sport's international governing body, FIBA, introduced the three-point line in 1984.\n\nThe NCAA's Southern Conference became the first collegiate conference to use the three-point rule, adopting a 22-foot line in 1980. Over the following five years, NCAA conferences differed in their use of the rule and the distance they required for a three-point shot. The NCAA adopted the 19-foot, 9-inch line nationally in 1986.\n\nDuring the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons, the NBA attempted to address decreased scoring (due to tougher style defenses) by shortening the overall distance of the line to a uniform 22 feet (6.7 m) around the basket. Dennis Scott used this rule change to set a record for most three-pointers in a season: 267 in 1995–96. From the 1996–97 season, the line was reverted to its original distance. With the legalization of zone defense in 2001, the three-point shot became more important, because of its ability to stretch out a zone.
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the way u saying it  probably mean 2 set up for a shot \n\nit also could mean set the tempo of your teams offense
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It means I play basketball
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lol no they dont have 4 quaters. they simply have 2 halves which is actually the more normal way of playing. they put quaters in the nba for more commercial time back like 35 years ago. in europe and olympics they have 2 halves. and 2 halves speeds the game up very much.