Why is it called "shooting" a basketball?

[oldmanspeaks]

I believe "shooting" is the expression because things like guiding or aiming cause you to miss. The release in basketball has to be total like you are firing a gun or an arrow. It is that non-hold back element that gives you that perfect arc. If you hold back at all in an attempt to somehow guide the ball, it is a sure miss.

[CelticConcourse]

I believe "shooting" is the expression because things like guiding or aiming cause you to miss. The release in basketball has to be total like you are firing a gun or an arrow. It is that non-hold back element that gives you that perfect arc. If you hold back at all in an attempt to somehow guide the ball, it is a sure miss.

Thanks!

[86MaxwellSmart]

would a Fly, still be called a "Fly"....if it didn't have wings...?

it's obviously the off-season, with pointless threads like these.

[OsirusCeltics]

I remember that huge uproar and banning of the "bullet" point in English classrooms...
• you
• know,
• these?

I call them Wizard points now.

My ribs are now in pain

[Birdman]

I always wonder this myself 

[86MaxwellSmart]

why is it called "dribbling"...instead of "Bouncing"--?

[clover]

So KO can give new meaning to 'shooting pool':

http://instagram.com/p/cAr4hagcn8/#

[OsirusCeltics]

I remember that huge uproar and banning of the "bullet" point in English classrooms...
• you
• know,
• these?

Is this really what they're teaching you kids in school these days?

Oh, the horror!  Someone called a list of items "bullets".  Be afraid, very afraid!

#facepalm

Exactly, it creates the opposite effect
It creates paranoid thinking, which makes kids subconsiously think about guns, which in turn makes them do it anyway