"Donatas Motiejunas wants to let his game do the talking.
That's the reason Sixers director of player personnel Courtney Witte gave for Motiejunas' not speaking with the media after Monday's draft workout at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
"This is a workout where he wanted to let his game do the talking," Witte said. "His English is good. He's really an intense, focused guy. It was nothing against anything here."
Motiejunas, a 7-foot, 240-pound Lithuanian power forward, participated in a solo workout with the Sixers, one of just four teams he will have worked out for in the U.S. He was in Houston on Friday and San Antonio on Saturday and has one more workout with the Knicks on Tuesday.
"Obviously it would be better if we could [work Motiejunas out] with other guys out here, but you take what you can," Witte said. "We felt very privileged to actually have the chance to bring him in under the one-on-none circumstance."
This isn't the first time the Sixers have met with Motiejunas and watched him work out. The Sixers' brass was in Treviso, Italy, last week for the Adidas Eurocamp, where they were able to sit down with Motiejunas and watch him in a private workout.
"He's a fun-loving guy but he's intense," Witte said. "We met with him last week in Treviso. We watched him at another workout outside of the camp. We felt very comfortable sitting down with him for a good length of time over there. To bring him in here today was an added bonus."
Motiejunas is a skilled big man with four years of professional basketball experience. He has played in Italy with Benetton Treviso and in the Euroleague, the best league in Europe. He averaged 13.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game this season while shooting 53.1 percent from the field in the Italian Legabasket Serie A. With his same Benetton Treviso team this season against tougher competition in the ULEB Eurocup, he averaged 10.9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game while shooting 44.1 percent from the field."