"It's nothing serious. You don't have to take it too seriously. It's just a game." Tang Shuai said.

"Well, that's fine. If I was seriously injured, I would feel very guilty." Calderon said with a smile.

Tang Shuai nodded with a smile. Confrontation during the game is very normal, and such minor injuries are inevitable. Calderon made a special trip to the locker room to comfort him after the game. This is rare. This may be related to people's personality. Calderon is different from most NBA players after all, and Spanish basketball culture is still quite good.

After the communication, he was about to say something politely and went back to the locker room, but just as he was about to speak, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Calderon, seems to be the most accurate free thrower in the current service?!

Calderon enjoys a reputation in international basketball, but is not very famous in NBA. There are only two things that really impress him.

The first is the assist-and-turnover ratio. His average average of 45 in his career and reached 54 at the highest. Although his assist ability is not the best, because of few breakthroughs and stable organizational output, he can be said to have beaten all active players in this technical statistics.

The other one is free throws. As the second-most free throw in NBA history, he once hit 87 free throws in a single season. You should know that sometimes he can't get free throws in a game, but no matter how long it takes, as long as there is a free throw opportunity, he can always make free throws. The stability of free throws is historical, and what is even more terrifying is that he is the player with the highest free throw shooting percentage in a single season in history. In the 2008-09 season, his free throw shooting percentage in a single season was 981%!

This is a very exaggerated concept. Intuitively speaking, in that season, he won a total of 158 free throws, but he only lost 3 free throws!

Tang Shuai did not fully remember these numbers, but he suddenly realized that the player standing in front of him sighed and looked like he was about to retire, and was the most suitable target for him to drop the free throw bag.

And now, because of an accidental injury, they actually met!

He suppressed his excitement and used the packaging system to scan Calderon's skill package.

Due to age and injuries, most of the skill versions on Calderon's body have been weakened, but even so, the weakened free throw bag is actually purple!

Calderon noticed that Tang Shuai was staring at him, and his expression became more and more excited. He smiled awkwardly and continued: "Tang, if it's okay, I'll go back to the locker room first."

"Wait a minute." Tang Shuai interrupted Calderon and continued, "Carl, are you free tomorrow morning? I want to ask you to talk about something."

"Talking about things? And me?" Calderon's eyes flashed with doubt. It seemed that there was only a wrist injury between him and Tang Shuai. He wouldn't have to say he wanted to cheat him, right?

"Yes." Tang Shuai nodded, then smiled bitterly, and said, "I have encountered some difficulties, about free throws, if possible?"

After he said that, he looked at Calderon. It was very presumptuous and even a little abrupt. After all, he was not familiar with Calderon.

"Free shot, I understand, I know you're in some trouble in this regard."

Calderon's reaction made Tang Shuai breathe a sigh of relief.

"Then..." he said and looked at Calderon.

"Yes." Calderon thought for a while and said, "The team has no training tomorrow morning. I originally planned to rest until a little later, but since you have proposed it, I can't refuse, just treat it as..."

He said as he looked at Tang Shuai's wrist: "This time you will get compensation."

Hearing Calderon agreed, Tang Shuai felt excited. Calderon's free throw report was much better than Batum's. His luck was really good. He suppressed his excitement and said with a smile: "Thank you."

Calderon smiled, then signaled that he would go back to the locker room.

After sending Calderon away, Tang Shuai didn't stop, and then said to Grant directly: "Jerian, do you have time tonight? I see that your dribble is not stable, so I can try to guide you some skills."

...

After coaching Grant for one night of training, Tang Shuai successfully obtained the blue free throw package he wanted.

The next morning, instead of boarding the plane back to Los Angeles with other teammates, he stayed in Los Angeles.

Compared with other techniques, there are not many skills to talk about free throws, but after the two met, Tang Shuai still learned a lot from Calderon, such as standing upright on the free throw, legs naturally spreading away parallel to the shoulders, bent his knees before the free throw, etc.

Although these basic techniques are involved in daily training, Calderon made some adjustments to his physical details. Not to mention, although it has not been packaged yet, his shooting percentage has improved significantly after the adjustment.

After the guidance was almost done, Tang Shuai said, "Jose, I know that in addition to free throws, your shooting is also very good. Do you mind us playing a game."

"Okay, I don't know what you want to play? If it's bullfighting, I'll just admit defeat. I can't compare to you." Calderon was quite honest. After Tang Shuai made a request, he said with a smile.

"We don't play bullfighting. In our China, there is a basketball game that is very suitable for leisure after playing basketball." Tang Shuai said, shaking his head.

"Oh? What is that?" Calderon looked at Tang Shuai curiously.

"Climb the stairs." Tang Shuai said.

"Climb...stairs?" Calderon looked at Tang Shuai in confusion, obviously not knowing what he meant by climbing stairs.

"Yes, climbing a stair is like climbing a staircase, starting from the position closest to the ring in the penalty area, shooting up one by one, and then reaching the free throw line, then going around the other side, and finally a three-pointer." Tang Shuai explained.

"Oh, I know, I know the game you mentioned. I played with others when I was playing in Spanish high school before." Calderon looked like he suddenly realized.

Tang Shuai nodded, Calderon's reaction was a little unexpected, but he quickly said: "Let's go for five laps and see who will complete it first."

"Yes." Calderon nodded, "But who will start first?"

"Let's play the mid-range shooting once. Whoever shoots first will start first, you will start first." Tang Shuai said.

"Then, I'm not polite." Calderon seemed very interested in this game, and then walked to the center circle with the basketball.

In the middle circle, except for those who express their opinions like Curry, the shooting in the middle circle is a shooting that is more lucky than accurate for others, and it is also for Tang Shuai.

After a long time of preparation, Calderon made a run-up of more than two meters in front of the center circle and shot.

"Bang!"

The basketball hit the basket after passing the high parabola in the air, and his first mid-circle trial shot missed.

Then there was Tang Shuai. After preparing for a while, he also started shooting.

"Bang!"

Like Calderon, his three-pointer in the middle circle was also out of the basket. Unlike three-pointers, he did not have much advantage.

In the next few minutes, the two men tried to shoot in the middle circle one after another. It was not until the fifth attempt that Calderon hit a lucky ball. The basketball hit the basket and jumped high, and fell into the net bag.

Calderon has the chance to take the lead in shooting.

Tang Shuai didn't care much about this result. After all, this mid-circle shooting was just a warm-up, and the real competition was the time to climb the stairs later.

After obtaining a white chocolate pass bag through 3v3 packaging last time, Tang Shuai's understanding of the packaging system has also risen to a higher level. He does not have to stick to the packaging method of bullfighting, which gives him more room for improvement.

After Calderon started shooting, he immediately embarked on a new packing journey.

Climbing the stairs compares the stability of the player's open shots, and he almost tests the player's shooting accuracy in every position.

Calderon quickly found his touch after starting the first shot from the left, climbing up the stairs until the low post on the right, and he completed it from beginning to end.

For professionals, it is not impossible to complete such a shot.

Then there was a three-pointer.

Calderon reached outside the three-point line at the top of the arc, aimed for a moment and then shot out.

"Swish!"

With a crisp sound, Calderon's three-pointer shot was quite stable.

"It's the second lap." Calderon said to Tang Shuai with a smile.

Tang Shuai smiled, but his expression was also focused. He thought Calderon had never played this game before and could find some advantages with his experience. Now it seems that the game is much more difficult than he imagined.

In the second lap, Calderon still continued his good feel and still completed all the goals without losing.

"Don, it seems that you will probably not have a phone call." Calderon said with a smile.

"Maybe." Tang Shuai said with a smile. Although Calderon is very stable, it is not easy to lose a goal in all five laps.

Sure enough, Calderon's shot went out from the basket on the right side of the free throw line in the third lap.

Seeing the basketball jumping out of the basket, Calderon shook his head helplessly. Obviously, he didn't expect that he would miss the ball.

In fact, if he was at the peak of the 2008-09 season, it was indeed very likely that he would complete five laps, but now he is older and his stability is much weaker than that time.

And at this time, Tang Shuai's will come.

Tang Shuai took a deep breath to relax his muscles, then he took the ball and started shooting.

From the beginning, he maintained a very high level of concentration. Judging from Calderon's performance, there were not many opportunities to allow him to make mistakes.

In the first lap, the sound of shooting "swish" hits sounded one after another. No problem, he reached the last three-pointer steadily.

When Calderon shot a three-pointer in front, he had been aiming for a long time. After all, a three-pointer shot was the most difficult goal in the game of climbing the stairs, but Tang Shuai breathed a sigh of relief when he reached the three-point line.

Three-pointers are his advantage. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!