scoring goals/making baskets

[diamondcutter]

She’s good at basketball. She’s the best player in my class. She’s very good at scoring goals and she can run fast.

Source: the test book for Kid’s Box 6, an English textbook for children, CUP

When we talk about basketball, we usually use ‘make a basket’ to mean ‘throw the ball into the basket’. And when we talk about football, we use ‘score a goal’ to mean ‘kick the ball into the net’. But here the book uses ‘scoring goals’ to talk about basketball. Is that common?

 

[Tarheel]

I would say she's good at making baskets or she's a good shooter.

They do use the term field goal to talk about a shot made during the normal course of a game. (That's as opposed to free throws, which are made from the free throw line.)

You could also say she's a good scorer.

 

[Yankee]

"Goals" shouldn't be necessary unless you need to make a distinction between two-or-three-point scoring and completed free throws.