NBA Draft Experts 9y

Martin provides late-round value

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To help readers get to know top NBA draft prospects, Insider offers a 360-degree look at many of them in a concise and thorough scouting report featuring three expert perspectives: Kevin Pelton (analytics), Fran Fraschilla (scouting) and Chad Ford (NBA front offices). Here's a look at Martin.


The analytics perspective

Kevin Pelton: The biggest red flag in Jarell Martin's statistics is his poor rebounding rate. As a freshman, Martin rebounded at a below-average rate for any college player, let alone a big man. His rebound percentage was more respectable as a sophomore, but Martin's projection would still put him among the bottom five power forwards in my college database. The rest of this group is made up of stretch bigs like Grant Jerrett, Ryan Kelly and Erik Murphy, along with Adonis Thomas.

Although shooting is Martin's lone statistical strength, he's not really a perimeter threat. He barely climbed over the threshold to make this a strength for power forwards by virtue of making 33.3 percent of his 3-point attempts as a freshman before dropping to 26.9 percent in Year 2. If you wanted to consider him a small forward, this strength would immediately become a weakness.

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