American basketball playing style is characterized by a combination of skills and special physical conditions, individual combat and several people combined combat as the main body.

American athletes excellent physical quality, speed, with amazing bounce, good coordination, often perform high-altitude dunks, rebounds, and good at breakthrough with perimeter shooting; defense, more close pressing, defensive aggressiveness; fierce scramble for rebounds, emphasizing the second attack, focusing on individual combat.

American basketball fully embodies the high, fast, accurate, clever, good basic skills, high personal level, the overall strength of the characteristics of the strong.

Basketball related terms:

1, dunk: the athlete with one hand or both hands holding the ball, jumping up in the air from top to bottom directly into the hoop.

2. Make-up: When a shot is missed, the athlete jumps up in the air to make up the ball into the basket.

3, jam: the attacker uses footwork to keep the defender behind himself, this kind of footwork is called jam.

4, lead to catch the ball: move in the direction of the flight of the pass and catch the ball in the right direction.

5, mismatch defense: defenders stand in their own defense on the side of the attacker, blocking him to catch the ball is called mismatch defense.

6, to position: the attacker with the body of the defender blocked behind, occupy a favorable position to receive the ball.