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I’ve been doing it three times every week. I have a system (at the team’s Auburn Hills practice facility) and I have one at my house, too,” Drummond said. “So every day after practice, I’ll go home or watch it here.

I’ve found something that keeps me calm,” he said. “Even if I do miss a shot, I found something to keep me calm and not get myself rattled. Once I missed one, I’d tense up and I’d miss the next one, too. So I found a peace within myself. Even if I do miss a shot, I’m going to be comfortable to get back up there and shoot the same shot again. Make or miss, I’m not going to be frustrated but move on to the next play.

Kilo wrote:Dre becomes a 60% FT shooter and he's a top 10 player in the league. He'd be a lot more forceful on offense because he wouldn't have to worry about getting fouled, but look to get fouled and players would have to play him softer because they wouldn't want to foul him.

Hell even a 50% FT shooter largely takes away the Bang-A-Drum strategy because you're trading points if you purposefully put him on the line each possession. Because two possessions for each team Dre is fouled twice and hits 2 of four for two points, on the other end the opposition is at best going to shoot 50% from the floor - so will score one of their two shots for two points.

Kilo wrote:We're screwed.

Scout Taron wrote:I mean, it appears to be the method that they are going with to improve Dre's FT shooting that they kept secret all offseason. May or may not work but it's notable in the fact that this is the thing SVG had been touting as why he thought Andrew would improve at the line.

"This is a misunderstanding," he said. "Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent."

An Andre Drummond free throw is like a snowflake; no two attempts are the same -- which is a problem. He struggles at releasing from the same spot on the floor each time.

For an average shooter, 80 percent of their shots start from within a five-inch zone. For Drummond, that zone is over a foot wide (14 inches). He also struggles with hitting the target.

A horizontal angular release of zero means the shot is aimed directly at the hoop. However, 80 percent of Drummmond's shots fall within a range of 5.64 degrees.

Andre Drummond is the least consistent big man in releasing from the same spot on the floor (left to right), and he launches it at a super-high angle (55.5 degrees, fourth-highest among big men).