Toronto Raptors scouting director discusses 2014 NBA draft

On impressions of the draft as a whole:
“It’s great. It’s extremely talented this year. I think … it’s a very good draft to have three [picks]. We’re kind of all across the board, too, at 20, 37 and 59. There is going to be a player on the board at all of those picks.”

On a position of strength in the draft:
“Not so much. In the first round there are a lot of wings out there. They’re talented across the board. It might be heavier one way or the other, but there’s a lot out there at the front part of the draft or toward the end.”

On whether his opinions change during draft workouts:
“We might have a list of, say, 10 guys or whatever. The order of that, we don’t know what that is. They’re all kind of bunched together. If they can come in and compete in workouts, and hopefully go up against one another if we can set that up, that’s where the jockeying for the position within that list happens. Workouts, they’re important. But we’ve seen these guys so many times. Seeing them in live action is the key anyway.”

-- National Post