You "handle" the rock, much like a newly engaged woman, to avoid turnovers.
OK, what do you do with "the pumpkin"? Can you "shoot the pumpkin"? And,if you do, and it gets blocked against the backboard, is that squashing the pumpkin? If you splatter pumpkin seeds all over the rim, is that smashing the pumpkin? What a Gothic thought? ;-) That might give a whole new meaning to score the pumpkin.