Ball It Up-Flash Back

I was going through some old video footage of my basketball days back in the days (junior year). I found a clip of me making a basket and realized the ball was a projectile. Now you may be saying, "I know what a projectile is." Well you may know the general idea of a projectile, but the more conceptual physics way of describing it is: Any object in the air having a set path with gravity as the only force that is influencing it. Oh you already knew that? Well did you know that in the case of my shot of the basketball into the basket, the ball has a vertical and horizontal plane it is travelling in. With these two components together my ball moves in a diagonal pattern. Since gravity is acting on the ball, the ball will follow a parabolic type path as the ball goes up reaches it peak (where its vertical velocity is zero, horizontal velocity remains constant) then comes back down. With the correct trajectory the ball goes into the basket. Oh you knew all that too? Oh well I thought it was cool.