layup vs basketball shot

layup and basketball shot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
layup	Yes	No	No	No
basketball shot	Yes	No	No	No

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

layup: 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 layup include shot.

layup (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