How would I check if I touched something with a certain name from a localscript

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#1 
local haveball = false
local Part = workspace.ballgiver



Part.Touched:Connect(function() 
	print("got the ball")
        Part:Destroy()
	if haveball == false then haveball = true
		end
	
	if haveball == true then

		Humanoid.Parent.Basketball.Transparency = 0
	end
	
end)

I am trying to make a basketball game, this localscript located in StarterPlayerScripts is supposed to delete everything in workspace named “Basketball” when “Basketball” is touched, however, this does not work for some reason.

#2

.Touched passes the BasePart which collides with Part as a parameter:

Part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	print(hit.Name) --name of BasePart which interacted with Part
end)

which you can then use to check if it’s the basketball:

if hit.Name == "Basketball" then
	hit:Destroy()
end
#3

You are doing this with a local script, this will happen only in the client. Also if you want everything in workspace going by the name basketball you can do a for loop,

for _, v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
    if v:IsA("Part") and v.Name == "Basketball" then
        v:Destroy()
    end
end

moving on, insert a ServerScript into ServerScriptService and insert a RemoteEvent into replicatedStorage, rename it to something like DestroyBasketball and then get it inside a script.

-- add onto local script --
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local DestroyBEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("DestroyBasketball") -- name of event
-- additional variables

Part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    DestroyBEvent:FireServer(Part) -- This will be helpful for the server to track down the ball
    -- rest of code here but remove destroy code
end)

Now onto the serverScript

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local DestroyBEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("DestroyBasketball") -- name of event

DestroyBEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,Part) -- first parameter is player, who fired it? then the part comes, try to remember this for future references
    Part:Destroy()
    -- OR YOU CAN DO THE LOOP WHICH DELETS ALL BASKETBALLS IN WORKSPACE/ OR BOTH
    for _, v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
        if v:IsA("Part") and v.Name == "Basketball" then
            v:Destroy()
        end
    end
end)

hopefully this helped :happy1:
Yours sincerely, @oscoolerreborn

#4 
for _, v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
    if v:IsA("Part") and v.Name == "Basketball" then
        v:Destroy()
    end
end

how would i add this to my current Part.touched script?