I'm still in the EuroBasket mindset - what is the word in your language when in basketball someone shoots a basket without hitting the rim or the backboard - just the net?

[u/Double-decker_trams]

For example in Estonian it's "Sops".

[u/kubanskikozak]

I've heard the expression "brez kosti" ("boneless")

[u/Kr_Pe → u/kubanskikozak]

"Brez kosti" is indeed the right expression.

[u/Hugo28Boss → u/kubanskikozak]

We also say that in Portuguese, but specifically fish bones

[u/RebootAndPray → u/kubanskikozak]

Yup, "bez koske" in Serbian too 🙂

[u/dinko_gunner → u/RebootAndPray]

Same in Croatian, "bez kosti"

[u/Pacifiction_]

French: un swish

[u/spatchcoq → u/Pacifiction_]

"swish" in the US too. Or "nothing but net"

[u/Oghamstoner → u/spatchcoq]

We also say swish in England

[u/Mosesmalone45 → u/Pacifiction_]

Or a string!

[u/penol700]

Gurkburk in swedish

[u/Rocabarraigh → u/penol700]

We called it "strumpa" (sock) when I grew up

[u/speculator100k → u/penol700]

Really? It's a completely different thing in handball.

[u/orangebikini]

In Finnish we say the shot went in "sukkana", which is difficult to translate to English but it basically references it touching just the net. The net is called (kori)sukka.

[u/Onnimanni_Maki → u/orangebikini]

difficult to translate to English

No it's not. As a sock and like a sock are valid translations.

[u/orangebikini → u/Onnimanni_Maki]

I don't think those are valid translations myself. First of all, even though the word sukka also means sock, in this context it means net. But even if you correctly translated that to net I don't think "as a net" is a great translation, since it simply just makes no sense. The ball doesn't do anything as if it was a net.

It's just difficult to translate.

[u/terveterva → u/orangebikini]

Makes as much sense in English as it does in Finnish, the ball doesn't turn into a sock or a net either way.

Maybe the old saying is "sukkapallo" as in "sock/net ball" and with time the "pallo" was left out?

[u/whateveridgf]

In Hungarian it's "csont nélkül" which means without the bone. Probably referring to the hard parts(rim and backboard) as bones

[u/xxiii1800]

Losse zak (loose sack)

[u/Endum_band]

Ringloos I think (Nl)

[u/KevKlo86 → u/Endum_band]

Second that.

[u/Veganwisedog]

In Spain we just say it was "clean"

[u/safeinthecity]

We say it's with no fishbones (in Portuguese, "sem espinhas"). It's also an expression used in general for a flawless attempt at something.

[u/Celeborns-Other-Name]

Strumpa (eng: sock)

[u/Hellbucket → u/Celeborns-Other-Name]

And when it hits the rim is it a kantboll?

I remember skiing in Austria in the 90s with a friend not very versed in English. We played table tennis in the basement of the hotel with other tourists. “No, it was my point. It was a cunt ball. It hit the cunt. It just slid off the cunt”.

Kantboll.

[u/orthoxerox]

Ćistyj (clean).

[u/dynablaster161 → u/orthoxerox]

same in czech. Čistý.

[u/Tortoveno]

In Poland it's "telemark". It's homage to our national sport: motor speedway.

[u/b17b20 → u/Tortoveno]

You are wrong, it's from another sport - ski jumping

[u/psxcv32]

Italian: I've always heard "Sciaf" but I don't know if it's the official one

[u/Hugo28Boss]

Without fish bones!

[u/TrivialBanal]

When I was in a basketball club as a kid, we called it a splash. I don't know if that's what everyone else calls it.

[u/toiletear]

We (Slovene) say "ck", I suppose the English writing would be more like "tsuck" or something, which is supposed to imitate that sound of ball going through net.

[u/spintowinasin → u/toiletear]

That doesn't tsuck.

[u/BattlePrune]

“Kiauras”, doesn’t have a direct translation, it means something that has holes or is leaky

[u/ynns1]

In Greece we say 'Άγγιχτο' (untouched).

[u/Goated549 → u/ynns1]

First time I hear this, I swear its 'Χλατσι'

[u/LittBoloMestNese]

Norway🇳🇴

I’ve heard the term «rævsleik» being used often when that happens. Not a basketball person though, so I might be wrong.