1.   At practice the next day, they taught the tall, skinny new kid how to shoot a layup.

2.   But Hockenbury drove the lane and shot a layup that hung on the rim, then fell in to tie the game as the buzzer for regulation expired.

3.   My father had taught me to shoot a layup the year before, but I barely understood the rules of the game.

4.   Most of the pre-eminent talkers of college basketball say they learned the art of playground repartee about the time they learned to shoot a layup.

5.   Quite clearly, these days, it is against the code to face the basket directly on a jump shot, or shoot a layup softly off the backboard.

6.   While shooting a layup in a game last week, his second, he was hammered to the floor.