to make a basket in basketball

Question

How do you say "make a basket" as in basketball?

How do you say "half" as in half-time?

Welcome to the forum, :) - 00494d19, Apr 8, 2011

Answer 1

I agree with everything that Deansky has said, only a couple of things, here we know a dunk as a clavada and half-time is also known as "medio tiempo", also "make a basket" is known as "encestar" or "hacer una canasta".

Why the Spanish team Deansky jajaja.

I forgot: Welcome to the forum.

Clavada, I like it! Canasta slipped my mind, they also use it in Spain. (I was following the Spanish basketball team during the Olympics and the WC). - Deanski, Apr 8, 2011

Welcome "me" to the forum?:) Jejeje. Parece que no nos habemos encontrado mucho por acá. I followed them since they were one of the few teams who could hang with the US.:) I'd like to follow Mexico, but you don't have that many "stars." - Deanski, Apr 8, 2011

Only Eduardo Najera comes to mind. - Deanski, Apr 8, 2011

Yes, and theres's a guy rising in the Spanish basketball but I don't remember his name, by the way, I was "welcoming" mpatton" :) - Dakie, Apr 8, 2011

Answer 2

All shots are called "tiro," and can be called "lanzamiento" if done from afar (perimeter shots). To score is "anotar". "Hacer un tiro" is to attempt a shot, to launch a shot from afar (any shot from the perimeter) is "lanzar un tiro." A dunk is a "mate." A "tiro libre" is a free-throw.

Half-time is "el descanso."

Answer 3

"Haga una cesta" o "hecha una cesta" o "tira una cesta" (though the last one is more like the attempted shot) all can imply shooting a basketball....

At the half could be interpreted as "a la mitad del juego" o "media jornada" but not too sure how much the latter is used in sporting parlance....

Answer 4

"make a basket" is known as "encestar" or "hacer una canasta".

Same in Spain!!

¿te gusta el baloncesto, heidi?:) - Deanski, Apr 8, 2011