The first time Patrick Hodgdon saw Mike Drysch in the lobby of Miami Beach’s upscale Raleigh Hotel last week, he figured there was no way.

The scouting report Hodgdon, a 27-year-old digital strategy manager for Minneapolis-based Bolin Marketing, had received from a Carmex public relations employee a week before he met Drysch was that Drysch’s chances of hitting the shot of a lifetime weren’t good.

Hodgdon agreed, seeing the 50-year-old McHenry resident who lives in an upstairs apartment above a retired carpenter and his wife as someone who was extremely likable, humble and about to miss the $75,000 half-court shot during a Miami Heat contest promotion.