Wheelchair Basketball: Shooting From a Wheelchair

Video Transcript

"I'm sitting here at the foul line, like if I'd been in a game and I got fouled and I was shooting, I'd get to shoot some free throws or some foul shots. I have a lot of my friends and people, they've sat in wheelchairs and tried to do this. They're amazed, as I was the first time I sat in a wheelchair. It's a lot higher when you're sitting down. And, you don't have the use of your legs. So, most of the time, people take their first shot, and it falls about five feet short of the basket. But we use our arms a lot, like, and we need the momentum. So, like somebody on their feet, they might have a nice perfect shot. It would just go, right like this. When you're in a wheelchair, sometimes, depending on your disability and your strength, sometimes you kind of have to get more momentum, you know. So like, I'm shooting a free throw, it's fifteen feet. I might have to, and I'll go ahead and take a shot here. You'll see how I have to get some momentum and flip my wrist. So, this is the lay up, you might be coming down the floor, full speed, someone's chasing you, they, you don't want them to block your shot, so, you shoot a scoop shot, like that. You know, if I'm going to take a shot, in fact I'll square up like I was going to take a shot. So, if I'm here in the wing, and I get a pass, and I, I go to take a shot, of course, if somebody bumps my chair, that's a foul, maybe. In, if you go watch an MBA team and somebody goes to take a shot, there's a lot of body contact. The wheelchair's kind of like the body. If you go take a shot and somebody's at your arm, of course, that's a foul. But, so it's really the same game. We do a lot of pick and roll, where, you know we get the wheelchairs in the way of each other, but, you know, it's just the same game. You still got to be able to shoot the ball and make the basket."