It’s early in his career, and it’s hard to tell definitely due to the messed-up nature of the Hornets right now, but I’m getting the feeling that Cody Martin is well on his way to becoming an impact player in this league. Not a very big impact, mind you, but any positive impact at all is better than the significant negative impact that someone like Terry Rozier (yeah if you wanted highlights of him scoring 20 this is my way of saying NOT A CHANCE) brings to the table.
He just makes plays. I know that’s a super-cliche thing to say about a player, especially one like Martin who kinda sucks when you look at his stats, but it’s the truth. Included in the plays that he makes is defensive plays. Now, I don’t know anything about defense, and I don’t want to know anything about defense, and I wish that players in the NBA didn’t play defense (it’s like they don’t want highlights made of themselves), but my gut tells me that he plays defense.
I could be wrong. Hornets fans are welcome to tell me how wrong I am about Martin right now. Maybe he really legitimately sucks just as much as his stats suggest and I’m being a huge dumbass. But if they want to do that, they will have to explain, clip by clip, why all the plays he made in this vid are actually the plays of a sucky player and not a good one.