"Keeping in shape, Add." Coach K and Addison hugged each other, looking at the boy's exposed solid muscle lines with a smile, "It seems that these two months are not regarded as the time to gain fat. ”

The boy smiled noncommittally, his body fat hadn't exceeded 7% since high school, and it was slowly decreasing almost every year.

The Dream Team's training camp has officially begun, and Old K has offered Addison a position similar to that of a trainer so that he can legitimately perform sparring tasks. You must know that this is a training camp full of the league's top players, and without CoachK's "pass", Addison probably won't have anyone on the court.

Even if he is a rookie in the lottery this year, in the eyes of the stars of these teams, he is just a rookie, and a rookie who is not worth paying attention to at all.

At the end of the day, whenever the Dream Team members practiced together, Addison would train with them. The status of an assistant trainer has a lot of advantages, at least with the majesty of Lao K, no one dares to let him do things like picking up balls.

Some of the big names in the Dream Team are still very friendly to Addison, a rookie who joined inexplicably, such as Stephen. Curry, Klay. Thompson and Anthony. Davis and others, but most of them still ignored him. Addison is not depressed, after all, the NBA is a league where the strong are respected, and the current boys are not qualified to win the favor of these stars.

After a day's training, most of the players left the arena, and Addison stayed as usual to practice. However, he was not the only one who stayed, and there was also a fair-skinned, thinner point guard with a baby's face who also stayed, and he and Addison each occupied a half of the court for projection training.

Stephen. Curry, now the star of the Golden State Warriors, is a terrible guy with relatively mediocre physical fitness, but he shocked the whole league with his god-like dry shooting.

Addison has been watching Curry while practicing, and unlike his own shooting percentage, which has slowly increased over time, Curry's shooting percentage has been frighteningly high from the very beginning of training, and the boy has watched him shoot 50 quick three-pointers from all corners of the three-point line, only one of which smashes into the basket, and the rest are all accurate!!

What an outrageous hit rate...... Even if it's just a separate training session when no one is guarded, but you must know that Curry shoots all in fast-moving situations, Addison can hardly see his preparation before shooting, and he is completely lightly aiming at the basket and then making quick shots, and his shooting rate is the fastest Addison has seen so far.

The hit rate is also the highest......

How did he do it??!! Addison was amazed, the baby face in front of him did not have superhuman explosiveness and speed, nor did he have outstanding height and reach, it was really hard to imagine how he broke the league's single-season three-point shooting record.

"You've been watching it for a long time, rookie, have you gained anything?" Stephen. Curry also noticed that Addison had been watching him train, and the doll had a teasing smile on his face.

The boy shook his head honestly, not the slightest hint of inspiration other than being shocked by Curry's shooting speed and shooting percentage.

"That's inevitable, if I can improve my hit rate just by looking at it, I'd rather stare at Ray every day. Aaron's videotape. Curry grinned as he walked over as the ball slammed back and forth under his crotch, "...... Actually, CoachK talked to me today, and he wanted me to coach you on shooting drills if I had time. ”

Addison's eyes lit up, staring straight at the babyface, and if he could get the guidance of this legendary shooter, it would definitely be of great benefit to his own shooting.

"But I'm embarrassed, shooting is actually just an action, and improving the shooting rate is not something that can be achieved with just two sentences." Curry shrugged his shoulders and his gaze swept over the boy, "And I've observed your shooting posture, it's pretty standard." At least I don't have much to teach you about the movements. Everyone has their best shooting moves, and I can't say that my shooting posture is the most standard. ”

Addison nodded, Dwyan. Wade said something similar to him.

"I think you've heard the saying that a real shooter never relies on the so-called feel, their ability is the muscle memory forged through tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of shots, and that memory is the shooter's greatest confidence." Curry tussled the ball in his hands, "The only way to improve your shooting percentage is to train, rookie, train ten times harder than others." When you take more shots than everyone else combined, you're already a good shooter. ”

After speaking, Curry casually raised his hand to the basket and threw the ball, the basketball drew a steep arc, and then lightly brushed the net through, bringing out a pleasant friction sound.

Addison narrowed his delicate eyes again, and to be honest, he also agreed with Curry's words, there is no trick to shooting, just like an old Chinese saying - read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will come to itself. The same goes for shooting, great shooters rely on the muscle memory built up by countless shots, so their shooting percentage is stable and efficient, which is fundamentally different from those guys who are called 'nerve knives'.

"But I can teach you a method that might work, and it should be very suitable for a rookie like you who is still laying the foundation for hit percentage." Babyface raised an eyebrow at the boy, and his tone changed suddenly, "This is the method my dad taught me, and I still use it." ”

Addison blinked, and the jet-black pupils stared at Curry again, looking deaf. Stephen. Curry's father, Dale. Curry is also a pretty good shooter in NBA history, and his training methods are definitely instructive.

Babyface smiled, and pointed around the entire half with his right hand: "It's actually very simple, rookie, find the hot spot with the highest hit rate and put all your energy into practicing there." ”

Addison was a little dazed, of course he knew what he meant by shooting hotspots, but he didn't know what Curry was doing when he mentioned this at this time.

"When you have a hot spot in the arena where you can shoot around 50 per cent, it's unimaginable how much you can contain the defense." Curry's expression became serious, "Nobody can shoot all the hot spots within 25 feet, boy." Trust me, find the place with the highest hit rate and work on it there. ”

***

When the media found out that Addison had been at the Dream Team training camp, the boy had been training there for four days. But this time the media is not too surprised, on the one hand, they have adapted to the 'elusiveness' hidden under the low-key of this No. 8 show; On the other hand, it's not uncommon to pick up some great rookie players to go to national team training camps as sparring partners, and CoachK seems to love this method of training rookies.

It's just that the media is puzzled that Coach K didn't choose Jabari. Parker, but let Addison be the sparring partner of the dream team, because in the eyes of the outside world, Parker is the proud work of Old K.

"Of course I envy Eddie!! I want to go to Chicago too!! But Eddie has what it takes to train with the big guys, and I'm sure of that. "Jabari. Parker said in an interview, half-jokingly, half-seriously, "Now I'm more looking forward to playing him in the new season, and I'm going to see what he learns there." ”

But Addison didn't have the time to pay attention to what the media was reporting on him, because something terrible happened in training camp that day.

In a match-up game, the Pacers in the BLU camp swayman Paul Brown. George's right leg touched the basketball hoop and twisted directly when he fell after chasing the block, and then his right calf twisted into a terrifying 90° right angle when it touched the ground, and he was severely fractured on the spot!!

This sudden situation caused panic in the training camp, and George's screams overwhelmed all the sounds in the field for a while, and everyone who saw this scene couldn't help but feel a dull pain in their calves.

After receiving emergency treatment on the spot, Paul. George was immediately taken to the hospital, and Coach K also announced that the day's training would end early, because all the players were emotionally affected, which was quite unfavorable to the impact of training.

Later that evening, George announced his decision to retire from the national team due to injury, and that he is likely to miss all the games for the rest of the season.

When all the members returned to training camp the next day, they were no longer as panicked as yesterday, and the professionalism of most of the NBA players was commendable. They understand what is most important and what they want to pursue.

The intra-team match was still held as planned, and Addison watched quietly on the side of the field as an assistant sparring partner, and the tactical coordination between these stars was of great learning value.

Old Coach K, who was standing with him, suddenly turned his head sideways and whispered in the boy's ear, "...... What would you do if I let you play now? ”

Addison was slightly stunned, then turned his head sideways and shrugged his shoulders at the old man indifferently. The boy never has any resistance to playing, he is eager to play, and he is even more eager to play against the strong.

"Alright, go put on a BLU vest and get ready to play."