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Former Detroit shooting coach Dave Hopla, who was on staff with the Knicks, Wizards, and Raptors before Stan Van Gundy brought him on with the Pistons, shared the sentiment. “When I was with him and watching him two years there,” Hopla said, “to get him to shoot even a hundred free throws, it’s tough, because he just can’t focus and concentrate for that period of time.”
Hopla said he attempted workouts where Drummond shot two free throws at each basket, then switched. He incorporated breaks. He tried alternating with another person. He changed it up to not shooting at all for a while, and when that didn’t work, he shifted again, shooting back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back. “We tried everything.” Drummond told me over the phone that Hopla’s recollection of those practices were “someone else’s opinion.” Through email, Van Gundy said that “Andre works extremely hard on free throw shooting, and it’s something we are constantly focused on in providing as many resources as possible.”
Hopla was not one of those resources for long. After being brought on in 2015 to, as he understood it, “help Andre,” the famed shooting coach was switched off of the big man by December of that year. For the rest of Hopla’s two-year contract — which expired this past May and was not renewed by the team — he did not work with Drummond again.
“Didn’t do anything with him,” Hopla said. “Just ‘Hey, how you doing?’ ‘Good game.’ ‘Great job.’ ‘How’s the family, Andre?’ You know. It’s crazy. … Blew my mind, too. Especially when you sit there, and one game he sets an NBA record missing the most free throws. … And you’re just sitting there, and you’re helpless. I just stayed in my lane, and that was it.”