For some players, particularly those who are likely to be selected with one of the first few picks of the draft, pre-draft workouts don’t hold much value. After all, what is to be gained by participating in workouts if you’re already near the top of the draft boards? Maybe you might be able to move up a spot or two with a particularly impressive workout, but there’s also the very real possibility of being outplayed by supposedly inferior talent, which could greatly impact a players’ stock. Given that, it’s not surprising to see more and more agents who represent top prospects insisting on solo workouts, or none at all. But for some players, particularly those projected to go around the late lottery, workouts can be a great opportunity to answer some, or even all, of the questions that a team might have about said player. One could argue that was the goal of Portland’s second pre-draft workout on Wednesday featuring South Carolina’s P.J. Dozier, Oklahoma State’s Jawun Evans, Louisville’s Donovan Mitchell, Syracuse’s John Gillon, Duke’s Harry Giles, Creighton’s Justin Patton and Indiana’s OG Anunoby.For a player like Mitchell, who many projections have going between the 8th and 15th picks, the question for Portland is probably whether his skills, particularly on defense, are so great that he’s worth adding to a team that is already squared away at both starting guard positions. For Anunoby, whether the knee injury that ended his college career and kept him from participating in Thursday’s workout will be a issue in either the short or long term was likely of interest to Portland’s front office. And for Dozier and Evans, both projected to go in the second round, the question might have been whether they were the caliber of player who would make it worth the cost of acquiring a second round pick.