Andre Drummond has yet to demonstrate that he can excel within a team system.

"If you draft him two, three, whatever, you're putting yourself out there," said an executive of a team that is in the lottery. "The one thing he doesn't do is he doesn't know how to play. He doesn't know how to play with the other four guys on the court. He can't carve out space to rebound the ball. He just rebounds it at that level because he's bigger and stronger and more athletic than everybody else. But when he gets to our level ... he doesn't have that feel as of yet. Could he get it? I don't know."

Drummond shot 29.5 percent from the free throw line during his lone season at Connecticut.

"He's as bad a free throw shooter as college basketball has seen," a Western Conference scout said.

A Southeast Division executive claims Drummond received a bad rap because of the Huskies’ poor win-loss record.

"He got labeled with all those other kids as kind of a screwup, but I didn't see anything that would indicate he's a screwup," the executive said. "I wouldn't discount Drummond. You put him with a pretty good coach, I think he's a pretty good learner. The thing I found interesting is how intelligent he was, to the point of taking things apart and putting them together, like computers. Real inquisitive type. That's half the battle, having somebody with some smarts to them."