NBA Draft workouts are one of the most essential parts in which the front office puts their brains and mettle to the test.

To assign a player for a visit to their respective facility and look at every single aspect possible — athletic ability, endurance, fundamentals, character, charisma, and in instances, commitment to the game of basketball.

These are just a few of the broader metrics which the team has to analyze all in the span of a day.

Damian Lillard, a prospect out of a relatively lesser known school, Weber State, yet ranked as the top point guard of the 2012 NBA Draft class, finishing second in the nation in scoring with a 24.5 points per game clip.

His workout with the Portland Trail Blazers was as horrid as they could get, reportedly lying in his interview to questions the team already knew the answers to and getting beat up-and-down the floor by a player expected to go undrafted, according to Ben Falk of Cleaning The Glass, a former basketball analytics manager for the team.

While the minds of scouts and front office intelligence were clouded with such an underwhelming performance, Falk, who was absent to Lillard's workout, but caught up by a coworker — was able to examine the tape and see the positive things in his workout, leaving the front office ultimately impressed with the Weber State prospect.

A bad interview, shooting night, or a subpar day at the weight room can sometimes be the cause players aren't drafted by a team — revolving into the fact that a team workout is the very last chance an organization has before making a decision on a player prior to the draft.

These workouts are as consistently rigorous for players as they are for team personnel, as prospects travel from city to city in tight windows of time in order to entertain their coaching staff/front office in hopes to play for the organization.

Lillard ultimately left the Blazers facility impressing the whole team despite a relatively rough start to his visit to the facility.

“By the time Damian Lillard left the facility after his workout, our entire staff was head over heels,” Falk wrote. “We sat in the conference room, giddy and gushing over what we had just seen. One of our executives summarized our thoughts perfectly: ‘now that is an impressive player — and person.' The athleticism, skill-level, maturity, poise, and composure under pressure that Lillard has exuded throughout his entire career was on display that day in Portland.”