What if....

[Wizard Mentor]

I don't see why a single workout would be that valuable. Granted, I'm not paid to assess players/prospects for a living, but I know something about sample size.

Teams have hours and hours of tape to see how a player has done in games. They have statistics to lift out information that the naked eye can't pick up. They have raw numbers about the true height/reach/speed of the players.

A workout should be, IMO, a small slice of the whole pie. If a team changes its mind based on a single workout, then I would submit that the team is making a procedural error.

Ed O.

In the case of Lillard, I think the blazers compiled all of the advanced statistics (such as those shown by Tom Penn on national TV), watched a bunch of tape, interviewed coaches, parents, friends, and came to the opinion that Lillard was they guy. However, to confirm their feelings, they brought in Lillard for a workout - and he absolutely killed it. To make sure he wasn't another Webster, they made sure he could shoot on the move. He could do it all - was in incredible shape, and almost didn't miss a shot.

The workout was only one piece of data, but it was the icing on the cake.

 

[MickZagger]

Waiters was picked by Cleveland solely on his workout with them...

Oh wait, nevermind.