The Minnesota Timberwolves today announced that the team has named 13-year NBA veteran Darrick Martin as the team's Assistant Director of Player Development. Martin will aid Assistant Coach/Director of Player Development J.B. Bickerstaff with the all of the team's player development initiatives.
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I read on a Raptors blog
Sorry, can’t find the link right now, but a couple of years ago the take on him was that he was a coach on the floor type player and was really beneficial to Jose Calderon.
"Come on Eddie, let's get serious."
I like his range of experience
Darrick, of course, was a journeyman in the league. He’s really seen it all, which is why I liked his name above guys like Chris Carr who’d done relatively little and never really developed their own games.
Martin happened to be the CBA type the Wolves wound up starting in the WCF due to Cassell’s and T-Hud’s injuries. That was, I believe, his second stint with the Wolves; he’d also been a bigger part of the roster back before Marbury, when the team was incredibly thin at the position. He played a few years with the Clippers, starting a lot of games.
He ended his career on Sammy Mitchell’s bench in Toronto, where he got a lot of the “veteran leadership” credit (along with Rasho, interestingly) for keeping Mitchell’s locker room together in that Coach of the Year season.
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