This is the second edition of the NBA vocabulary. On the basis of the original edition, some words were added, some explanations were added, and the mistakes in the first edition were revised. But there are still many words that can't be fully explained in Chinese and can only describe their meanings. If it is not accurate, please include more. If an expert knows its Chinese meaning, please tell me.

Achilles tendon: Achilles tendon

Air ball: "air ball", the thrown ball didn't touch anything. According to Webster's dictionary, the one who fails to touch the rim and rebound in basketball is a missed shot, so the literal translation should be "two sticks".

Air relay: "air relay" one player throws the ball into the air, and another player catches the ball in the air and pours it into the basket.

Arena: Arena; Arena. For example, the home of Seattle is called Key Arena.

Assist: assist (Ast for short). )

Rebound: Rebound. Note: It is not a basketball board.

Backcourt: Backcourt. A team's own half is the backcourt, that is, the half that the team has to defend.

Back door tactics: one of the basic tactics of basketball. When a player catches the ball near the free throw arc, another player immediately inserts it into the basket from the weak side and receives a pass from his teammate.

Bank shot: clean cricket, hitting the board into the basket

Bottom line: the bottom line, the dividing line between the two ends of the stadium

Basket: Basket. Also known as ring, there is a popular saying called hoop.

Substitute player

Cap: cap (Blk for short). )

Block: stop the foul. Note: here is the ing form of the verb, especially the action of foul.

(American) Make a fool of yourself. The NBA is especially good at capturing such tidbits inside and outside the stadium, and releases the "Top Ten" spectacle shots of that year every season.

Board: backboard. ESPN announcers like to use this word when broadcasting competition results.

Shh: (n) shh; (v) hissing and booing. A way for fans to vent their dissatisfaction.

Bounce pass: Touchdown pass

Box out: Rebound block, that is, stand between the opponent and the basket when rebounding, and block the defender's action with your body.

Brick:(v) The ball hits the basket or rebounds. When the visiting team made free throws, many bulls fans kept shaking in front of the penalty shooters with a sign that said "Brick" in their hands, thus interfering with the free throws.

Pitch: To throw (the ball), often used in the phrase to bury the jumper.

Whistle ball: the last blow before the end of the game. The buzzer is the buzzer of the competition.

Captain: Captain. The captain is the only person who is qualified to discuss the rules and penalties with the referee.

Charge: collision foul, that is, the attacking player collides with the defender who is in a reasonable position and does not move.

Cheerleading: Cheerleading, also known as hurra team.

Coach: Coach. For example, the head coach is the head coach and the assistant coach is the assistant coach.

From one end of the court to the other. For example: coast-to-coast pass.

Meeting: Alliance. The NBA is divided into two leagues (Eastern League and Western League), and each league has its own logo.

Commissioner: Chairman. The current president of the NBA is david stern.

Cornrow: A popular hairstyle in the NBA today, which ties the hair into a braid. Like Iverson and Sprewell, this hairstyle is very vivid and appropriate.

Stadium: Stadium; Stadium. Home. Home.

Cross: cross dribble. Tim hardaway's landmark action.

Cut in: cut in

Debut: debut

Defense: defense. When the visiting team attacks, we can often hear the home fans shouting "Defense!" Under the guidance of the sound engineer in the gym. Defense! " .

Reject the ball: defend around the frontcourt

Disqualification: Be sent off the field (abbreviated as DQ). ), also called foul out.

Teacher: teacher. NBA*** has four divisions, and each league has two divisions.

Double: two pairs, that is, two technical statistical indicators reach double digits.

Dribble twice: dribble twice

Double team: double attack

Dribble twice: dribble twice

Urban area: the area outside the three-point line.

Draft: Draft, that is, the annual recruitment meeting of the NBA.

dribble

Duo: The original meaning is duet. In basketball, it refers to A Duo, such as karl malone and john stockton.

Explosive power: explosive power

Backward shot: backward shot. Also called back jump shot.

Fake action: (n) fake action; (5) feint

Fast break: fast break; Quick breakthrough

Finals: Finals. semifinal

Shooting: Shooting, including two-point shooting and three-point shooting (FG for short). ).

Finger roll: the action of picking up the ball with your fingers when making a low-handed layup.

Malicious foul: Unnecessary or excessive foul, malicious foul.

Foul: Foul. A personal foul is a personal foul; The accumulated foul of the whole team is called the foul in the team.

Foul trouble: (n) The player's trouble caused by the number of fouls, for example, the player has fouled nearly six times and will be sent off after one or two more fouls.

Free man: A free man. Athletes and newcomers whose contracts expire are free men, and free men are not bound by the team.

Free throw: Free throw (referred to as FT. )

Front court: Front court. The opponent's half is the frontcourt, that is, the half where the players attack.

GB: short for backward game, backward game. There is no such thing in the NBA. Generally speaking, backward games are used to indicate the gap between teams.

Give-and-go: One of the basic tactical coordination, the attacker passes the ball to another teammate-give, then cuts into the basket, and then receives a return pass from the teammate to make a layup (or dunk) and score -go. That is what we often call "communication and coordination".

Go: similar to what our fans say, "Go!" . In the final between the Bulls and the Lakers, a Bulls fan shouted "Come on Bulls! Take it home! " Translated into Chinese is "Come on Bulls! Take it (champion) home! "

Goalkeeper: Jamming the ball. When the thrown ball starts to fall from the highest point (before reaching the basket), the defender can't touch the ball again, otherwise the defender will be judged to interfere with the ball and the attacker will score. This rule was introduced into the NBA by 1944, in order to limit the giant center like George Mikan from being too "overbearing" in the basket.

Green room: During the draft, the rookie and his family and friends gathered in the green room. When david stern, president of NBA, read his name, the rookie came to the front desk, which also means that he has been selected by the NBA team and is about to start his career.

Gunner: A pitcher who often shoots.

Hand inspection: A: A defensive technique, that is, touching the opponent's body with your hand and tracking the opponent's position. Also called hand check B: A defensive foul. The defender blocked the attacker with his hand. The defender can't stop the attacker's movement with his arm. The legal hand inspection technology only allows the hand to touch the other person's body to track the other person's position, but it does not allow the hand to stop the other person from moving.

Let go: handyman's pass.

Hanging time: air time, that is, the time that athletes stay in the air when shooting.

High position: around the free throw arc, Hong Kong's explanation is translated as "high position"

Holding the ball: it's a foul to pull someone.

Hook shot: Hook shot, sometimes directly represented by "hook". What's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's nickname again?-"Jabbar"-Tiangou.

Hustle: Used to describe an athlete who plays hard and is aggressive. I once saw a short film about dikembe mutombo, and his first sentence was "Welcome to the noisy Mutombo ...". In the NBA, rebounds, assists, steals the ball and blocked shots are used to describe the aggressiveness of athletes. The title of this data table is also called hustle.

Illegal defense: illegal defense. In the NBA, joint defense is illegal defense.

List of wounded: list of wounded. If a player is injured and can't participate in the game, according to NBA regulations, he must be included in the wounded list (the wounded list is public) (abbreviated as IL).

Jam: Dunk. One-handed jam dunk; Jam dunk with both hands. The famous singer Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan co-produced an MTV called Jam.

Sweater: An athlete's vest. Also known as uniforms. When some athletes who have made great contributions to the team retire, their jerseys will also be retired. His jersey is hung on the ceiling of the team's home court, and other athletes can't use the number on this jersey in the future.

Jump ball: jump ball; Fight for the ball

Jump shot: Jump shot. Also known as jumper.

Ryan: Restricted area. Also known as the free throw line. When basketball was first invented, the penalty area was slender, shorter in width than the diameter of the penalty arc, and shaped like a key, so it was also called a key.

Layup: layup

Ligament: ligament. Cruciate ligament, cruciate ligament and ligament in knee joint are the most vulnerable parts for athletes, including anterior cruciate ligament and posterior cruciate ligament.

Dressing room: dressing room

Logo: Logo, the logo of NBA is an athlete dribbling. It is said that this logo is designed according to the image of Jerry West and has been used by NBA since 1960s. Team logo, team logo

Draw lots: the process of determining the order of the draft. In the past, it was decided by flipping a coin, which was called "lottery" because of its uncertainty.

Low position: in the three-second zone, on both sides of the basket, near the bottom line, translated by Hong Kong commentators as "low position".

Mascot: Mascot. Many teams in NBA have their own mascots, and some have more than one. More famous ones are the gorilla of Phoenix, Turbo of Houston, etc. There is a rule in the NBA that the actor of the mascot is not allowed to reveal his identity in order to maintain a sense of mystery. If any reporter accidentally sees the actor, he is not allowed to take pictures or videos. When it is necessary to interview them, actors often sit there with the helmet of the mascot, and other costumes remain unchanged. Most of the lighting was turned off, only a beam of light came in from behind him, and the audience could only see an outline.

Confrontation: (n) the corresponding relationship between positions in attack and defense.

Meniscus: Meniscus. A piece of cartilage in the knee joint is also one of the places where athletes are easily injured. We often hear that an athlete is on the injury list because of meniscus tear and can't play for several months.

Move: move. This word appears very frequently in the NBA, such as a beautiful move and we say "great move!" " ; Turn around and get rid of what we call "rotating movement"

MVP: Most Valuable Player and Most Valuable Athlete.

Nba: abbreviation of national basketball association

Net: Nets. A sign to check whether the ball is in the basket. When David Benoit of Utah dunked, the ball hit his head and popped out of the basket. The ball didn't touch the net during the whole process. As a result, the target was invalid.

Free zone: attack the rational zone. According to the new rule of 1997, draw a semicircle (dotted line) with the center of the basket as the center and each basket as the radius of 4 feet. This area is called the offensive rational zone, and only the foul was stopped, and no one was hit with the ball (note: except O 'Neill's amendment).

Proposal: attack. Adjective forms are aggressive (abbreviation: off. ) can modify other nouns. For example, offensive rebounds are offensive rebounds.

Open shot (unattended)

Pass: The first pass after grabbing the basketball board is usually a long pass every other field.

Out of bounds: out of bounds

Overlimit: Literally, the number of fouls exceeds the standard, which means that any team will be fined for more than four fouls in any quarter, regardless of whether the attacking player has shot or not.

Overtime: Overtime, 5 minutes.

Handball: we often say "wrist flip", dribbling foul, also known as dribbling.

Pass: Pass.

Infiltration: Infiltration. Unlike cutting, penetration does not have to be cut in. For example, in the final goal of 1997 finals, Jordan dribbled the ball to the basket, but he didn't cut it directly. Everyone saw what happened afterwards. The announcer said at this time ... Jordan broke through, and the double bag was caught on Jordan, and Kerr opened it, and Kerr knocked it down.

Personal foul: personal foul

Pick and roll: pick and roll tactics. One of the basic offensive tactics of basketball, the attacker uses the ball to cover his teammates, which is called "set pick" in English, and then covers the player to move to the basket, which is called "roll", and then receives the pass from his teammates and shoots unsupervised. Pick-and-roll is Malone and stockton's specialty. The tactics derived from picking are picking light, picking points and so on.

Select: cover page

Fulcrum: a: the action of turning the body around one foot to change direction (n). B: The area under the basket controlled by the center.

Playoff: rematch; The playoffs, that is, the elimination of the top eight leagues after the end of the regular season.

Point guard: Point guard, also called point guard.

Location: location. In the NBA, athletes are divided into three positions-forward, center and guard.

Power forward: Power forward, often called "the second center" in China. The two are slightly different. The "second center" is based on the position of the center and comes from the "double center" tactic, which we learned from the big brother of the Soviet Union. Power forward is still a forward in theory. They are rebounding experts and the defensive backbone of the team.

News: News (national defense). Full court press, full court press; Half-court press, half-court press.

Pump fake: a fake action of shooting

Push: Push a foul

Four pairs: four pairs. That is, four technical statistical indicators exceed double digits. Very rare, it has only appeared four times in history, created by david robinson, hakeem olajuwon, thurmond and alvin robertson respectively.

Quarter: part. An NBA game is divided into four quarters, each of which is 12 minutes. The first two paragraphs are called the first half and the last two paragraphs are called the second half.

Rebound: Reb. )

Reference: Referee

Rejection: upper limit

Reverse: (a) reflexive. For example, the reverse dunk after cutting from the baseline is the reverse dunk.

Rim: basket

Rookie: a newcomer, an athlete who plays in the NBA for the first year. So the first season of rookie is also called rookie season.

Running score: continuous score. In the game, a team's 12-0 run in the last 4 minutes is often played on the screen, which means that the team scored 12 in the past 4 minutes, and the score 12 was less than 0.

Salary ceiling: salary ceiling

Fraction: Fraction. We have to break up.

Scout: Scout. Marty Black is the head of the NBA scouting service. He is highly respected and has made great contributions to the NBA. Without his efforts, we might not have seen Pippen, Magellan, Du Masi and Porter, basketball stars who have come out of the schools that just fill the blanks.

Screen: cover page, same as selection.

Season: season

Shooting clock: 24-second timer

Sideline: sideline

Sixth man: The sixth man, the first substitute, is an important substitute in the team.

Slam Dunk: Slam Dunk, especially the action of jumping up and sucking with both hands holding the ball:), or slam with one hand, where slam means bang, emphasizing the sound made during slam dunk. Also called dunk.

Sneaker: A sneaker, especially one with a canvas rubber sole.

Team: five people, an informal name for the basketball team.

Starting lineup: starting lineup, starting main force

Stealing: breaking the ball; Steals the ball (Stl for short). )

Strong side: a strong side. The side with the ball is the strong side. (Please refer to Defense FAQ for the specific definitions of strong side and weak side. )

Substitute: a substitute player

Pause: suspend the athletes' competition; pause

Special police: captain

Swindler: An athlete who can play two different positions, especially shooting guard and small forward, such as eddie jones of Hornets and Nick Anderson of Kings. Note: Don't mistake swingman for an athlete's nickname.

Switches: changing (preventing)

Tattoo: Tattoo. According to the investigation of Associated Press 1997, 35. 1% of NBA players have tattoos. Now tattoos have become the fashion of NBA like Connor, and some tattoos have become the trademarks of athletes, such as O 'Neill's Superman "S" and Stoudemire's Rat.

Team: attack (note: not necessarily a two-person attack, but a multi-person attack)

Technical foul: Technical foul. Like overtime, the initial letter of a technical foul is "T", which is why the referee will form a capital "T" by hand when judging a technical foul. But the difference is that when a timeout is requested, the coach or player makes this gesture; The referee made this gesture when judging a technical foul. See timeout

Three-pointer: Three-pointer

Three-pointer: Three-pointer

Three-point play: score two goals, causing the opponent to foul. Note: the difference between this word and three-pointers, three-pointers.

Three-second violation: three-second violation, also known as the 3-second rule violation.

A draw; draw

Timeout: Pause. The NBA has a 20-second timeout and a 100-second regular timeout. Because the initial letter of the timeout is "T", the coach and the player form the word "T" with their hands when requesting the timeout.

Tip: Form a basket

Tip: Jump kick-off. Pay attention to the difference between somersault and jump ball. Jump ball is simply jumping up to fight for the ball, and tip-off is only a kick-off when jumping up at the beginning of the game. Kick-off can be used here to help you understand. Kick-off is the way of American football kick-off, and tip-off is the way of basketball kick-off, both of which vividly describe this action.

Transition: the process from attack to defense

Junk talk: "nonsense", swearing and garbage talk between players. This word is not difficult to understand, just look at the meaning directly.

Travel: Walking is illegal. Also called walking.

Triple double: triple double, that is, three technical statistical indicators exceed double digits.

Turnover: error, (abbreviation: to. ). This is easier to understand. The turnover has turned back. Why did you turn back? It was because of the attacker's mistake that the ball fell into the opponent's hand. The NBA has a special statistic called assists/mistakes, which compares the number of assists and mistakes of this player. This statistic can accurately reflect whether a point guard is competent or not.

Uniform: uniform. Of course, basketball players' uniforms are vests and shorts, and uniforms sometimes refer to vests.

Versatile: versatile, used in the NBA to describe those athletes with all-round skills.

Veteran: an old athlete. The NBA attaches great importance to veterans, and all teams regard their veterans as a fortune. The word veteran has a high probability of appearing in the NBA.

VS: Short for VS, such as Los Angeles Lakers vs Houston Rockets.

Warm-up: Warm-up NBA players pay special attention to warm-up. It is particularly important to reduce injuries and let athletes warm up. Some even need the help of team doctors and trainers to warm up, but I find that the fans around me don't pay attention to warm up.

Weak side: weak side. The side without the ball is the weak side. (Please refer to Defense FAQ for the specific definitions of strong side and weak side. )

Open and unguarded. In most cases, the purpose of tactical cooperation is to create space for teammates so as to cope with it calmly.

Area: joint defense; Zone defense. Also called zone defense.