Former FGCU guard Comer gets workout with Miami Heat

All Brett Comer has wanted is a chance to show what he can do against the best.

Tuesday morning, the former FGCU point guard got a good one — a predraft workout with six other prospects with the Miami Heat.

"Obviously it's fun, something you kind of dream of," Comer said. "It's cool, growing up in Florida seeing the Heat play. It was neat meeting Pat Riley. I couldn't be more happy that Miami gave me a chance to work out for them."

The seven prospects, including projected first-round picks Rondae Hollis-Jefferson of Arizona and Rashad Vaughn of UNLV, spent Monday night in a hotel in Miami, visited doctors for testing in the morning and played 1-on-1 and 3-on-3 in American Airlines Arena in front of Heat staff, including team president Riley.

Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard worked out Comer's group.

"I thought I did pretty well," he said. "I held my own and competed like I always do. It's all I can always do, but I thought I competed pretty well."

After posting a strong assist-to-turnover ratio in a distribution role at the Portsmouth Invitational last month in Virginia, Comer was more assertive offensively today.

"The situation is kind of try to score the ball," he said. "Portsmouth was me passing the ball around. People thought I did well but didn't think I was aggressive enough, maybe. I wanted to be a little more aggressive."

Afterward, the prospects were interviewed by Heat staff.

"I think they want to see what your personality is like a little bit. They want to see who you are," said Comer, who got good feedback. "They kind of just said, 'Thank you. You looked good. We'll be in touch.'"

Former FGCU teammate Sherwood Brown had several predraft workouts in 2013 but was not selected in the two-round draft. He spent parts of his rookie season and all of last season in the NBA D-League with the Maine Red Claws, the affiliate of the Boston Celtics.

Miami has the 10th pick in the June 25 draft, although teams use predraft workouts to evaluate for both rounds, potential summer league invitees and D-League rosters.

"Hopefully I'll get into a few more (workouts)," said Comer, noting the opportunity that sometimes eventually comes even to undrafted players, such as Cleveland guard Matthew Dellavedova, formerly of St. Mary's (Calif.) College.

"He stuck with it and proved that he can play. Now he's starting in the playoffs with Kyrie (Irving) hurt."

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