AUBURN HILLS -- Anthony Brown says he could be the 3-point bomber the Detroit Pistons seek. Julian Washburn says he could be their defensive stopper.
Either of those players, and the four other wing-type players who worked out for the Pistons on Thursday, would be happy to land with any team that needs their talents.
The six potential second-round picks, including small forwards Washburn (Texas-El Paso) and Brown (Stanford), were among the first group hosted by the Pistons in on-site workouts leading into the June 25 NBA draft.
The Pistons' second-round pick is No. 38 overall.
All six players who worked out here played at least three college seasons and all stayed in college at least four years.
Brown was a 40-percent college 3-point shooter, including 45 percent his last two seasons after what would have been his third season was cut short by hip injury and a medical hardship.
He was a five-year collegian and compared himself to players such as ex-Piston Khris Middleton, Danny Green and Klay Thompson, "shooters that aren't the most athletic but know how to get their shot off, are unconscious and just shoot the ball -- can flat-out shoot it."
The Pistons are in the market for shooting.
"I think fit is more important than where you go in the draft because once the draft is over nobody cares about the number," Brown said. "It's about how you fit now."
The Pistons also are looking for perimeter players who can guard their position and Washburn, last season's Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year, said he could be "a great defensive stopper" for them.
"They don't really have a wing they can depend on that can stop other teams' best players," he said. "And I feel I can step right in and guard other teams' best players and do a pretty good job.
"I feel like you've got to be tough to play defense. You can't really name too many defenders who are soft in the NBA. So you've got to have heart and you've got to have a different kind of mindset to go out there and compete against the other team's best player night in and night out. I feel like I have a lot of heart and I'm pretty tough. So I love doing it."
Washburn was an evolving 3-point shooter in college who improved to 38 percent as a senior at UTEP.
Today's workout was his ninth with an NBA team, he said.
"I feel like I've been competing in all these workouts and I've been getting a lot of positive feedback from all these coaches," he said.
Washburn is projected as a late-second-round or undrafted player, like five of the six who worked out here Thursday. Only Brown is a solid early- to mid-second-rounder.
The others who worked out were guards Darrun Hilliard (Villanova), Terran Petteway (Nebraska), Josh Richardson (Tennessee) and Ralston Turner (North Carolina State).
"I think I fit in perfect," Petteway said. "I could be a two-way guard, a guy who comes in, makes shots, and also guard a little bit on the defensive end, bring high energy and a good motor."
The Pistons have not announced their next round of workouts but Arkansas power forward Bobby Portis told Boston media this week that he has a workout scheduled here Saturday.
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