lay-up vs basketball shot

lay-up and basketball shot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lay-up	Yes	No	No	No
basketball shot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, basketball shot is a hypernym of lay-up; that is, basketball shot is a word with a broader meaning than lay-up:

lay-up: a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
basketball shot: throwing the basketball toward the hoop

Other hypernyms of lay-up include shot.

lay-up (noun)	basketball shot (noun)
a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)	throwing the basketball toward the hoop