{"id":51224,"date":"2025-11-25T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51224\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:30:09","slug":"tyrese-martin-is-making-his-case-with-the-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51224\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Martin is making his case with the Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

While players like Cam Thomas and Michael Porter Jr. are respected scorers around the league, every team needs a guy like Tyrese Martin<\/a>, and a few if they\u2019re lucky.<\/p>\n

Reliable. Unselfish. Coachable. Composed.<\/p>\n

The numbers may not jump off the page, but those traits are what Martin, a former second-round pick out of UConn in 2022, has brought to Brooklyn\u2019s roster. Once on a two-way contract, he\u2019s earned the trust of his coaches and teammates, worked his way into a standard NBA deal in February and secured a spot on the Nets<\/a>\u2019 roster this season.<\/p>\n

And over Brooklyn\u2019s last four games entering Monday\u2019s matchup against the Knicks at Barclays Center, Martin has started to show even more, pairing his usual effort and toughness with timely scoring and a growing confidence that\u2019s beginning to stand out.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust being aggressive,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI know I didn\u2019t start the first 10 games how I wanted to and to help this team, and mentally I was messed up, but then I kind of got out of that like five games ago and let myself play free mentally and not think about how I\u2019ve been playing, just how I\u2019m going to play going forward and it\u2019s been working for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin has long been known as an off-ball shooting threat, but head coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez has asked him to handle more responsibility with the ball since training camp. That shift has been gradual. The 26-year-old didn\u2019t have the strongest start while adjusting to his new role, but in recent games he\u2019s begun to find a rhythm. He\u2019s averaging 16 points over his last four appearances while shooting 57.9% from the field and 47.6% from 3-point range, along with 2.5 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.3 steals.<\/p>\n

He also leads the team in true shooting at 74% over that span, and he\u2019s starting to make a real name for himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s just a mature, steady person,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cYou see it in the day-to-day and it reflects on the court. All his teammates trust him. We trust him. And he\u2019s been part of our success as far as competing every time we give ourselves a chance to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with the Nets investing heavily in a young core<\/a>, Martin\u2019s rise is a reminder that development doesn\u2019t stop at 19 or 20. He\u2019s older than the rookies Brooklyn is building around, but that shouldn\u2019t exclude him from the same patience and runway they\u2019re afforded. Growth comes at different speeds, and Martin is showing what can happen when a player in his mid-20s is given room to expand his game instead of being boxed into a label.<\/p>\n

His recent stretch is proof of that, but now he has to sustain it. The more responsibility the coaching staff has given him, the more he has responded. Not by changing who he is, but by sharpening the qualities that already made him valuable. And as his confidence has blossomed, so has his presence in the locker room.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always a person that will bring the group together, he\u2019ll talk,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t say much, but when he does say something, everybody really listens. That\u2019s a guy that always leads by example. So, you always need a grownup, and I know he\u2019s not very old, but he\u2019s a reliable person, and I think we\u2019ve tried to build something special. You definitely need people like him. He\u2019s definitely a star in his role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While players like Cam Thomas and Michael Porter Jr. are respected scorers around the league, every team needs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,4570,21,4475,9,24,63,19720],"class_list":["post-51224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tyrese-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}