Associate head coach Rashon Burno sent the text at 5:49 p.m. Wednesday, about 27 hours before Arizona States home contest against UCLA.<\/p>\n
Hey, are you getting shots up tonight?<\/p>\n
Yeah I am, Kimani Lawrence answered.<\/p>\n
Work on getting shots behind ball screens. Also, get some off the bounce one-dribble pull-up.<\/p>\n
Aight, got you.<\/p>\n
Lawrence was coming off perhaps his worst game of the season. In last Saturdays win at Washington, the junior forward attempted two shots. Both from 3-point range. Neither hit the rim. A capable shooter, Lawrence boarded the team bus 6 of 38 from the arc on the season.<\/p>\n
A nightmare.<\/p>\n
Once the Sun Devils returned to Tempe, Lawrence did the only thing he knew: He studied film from last season, watching himself drill 3-pointers. Then he went to the gym, turned on music and went to work, getting up nearly 1,000 shots a day. Before practice. <\/p>\n
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