Dwight Howard has hired shooting coach Ed Palubinskas of Australia to work with him.

Palubinskas also has worked with Brandon Bass and briefly with Shaquille O'Neal.

Palubinskas, who played for LSU, offered his services to Howard in May of 2010.

"I will completely change his numbers in less than one week and you won't recognize him," Palubinskas wrote in an email to the Orlando Sentinel.