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ANALYSIS: Just in the last five games alone, Caleb Martin has played 202 minutes of basketball. That's ridiculous. That is, also, what happens when you are part of a team with a depleted rotation no matter the position in the depth chart you analyze.
Martin has been started all season at the PF position after PJ Tucker moved to Philly this summer, of course, but I don't think nobody expected him to log 33+ MPG nightly (his mark over the full season), let alone the 38 MPG he's averaged in the past three weeks.
As expected, the fantasy per-minute efficiency is ground-level bad (0.74 FP/min; league average at 0.90) but the massive runs he's getting are helping him make up for that on pure brute force.
Martin has scored at least 12 points in six of his last seven games getting back to Nov. 14 (he dumped 8 pops in the other one). He's hit 16 3-point shots in total in that span for an average of 2.2+ per game while shooting a magnificent 53% from the floor in that seven-game span on a below-average 15% usage rate.
The 4.9 rebounds per game are definitely subpar for someone starting and playing a lot at the PF spot (25 "true" PF/C have logged 500+ MP through Saturday and all but five are averaging at least 4.4 RPG).
That said, Martin provides numbers in other cats where most bigs can't quite produce: namely, he's one of eight players putting up a nightly 10-4-2-1 line (key: 1.3 SPG) while shooting 39%+ from beyond the three-point line.
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