Miami Heat's Caleb Martin Becoming A `Complete Basketball Player'

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra continues to rave about forward Caleb Martin
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 What impresses Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra the most is forward Caleb Martin's willingness to grow as a player. 

Spoelstra said Martin has improved in every aspect since he joined the Heat last season. He had 17 points and eight rebounds in Thursday's victory against the Los Angeles Clippers.  

"He's an offensive talent," Spoelstra said. "He does a lot of different things for us. He can score, that's what he was before he got to us in college. But he's also learned to space the floor for us ... He's really grown in all these different areas. It speaks to him becoming a complete basketball player." 

Martin has made the greatest strides as a 3-point shooter. He is shooting 41 percent from the arc this season, including four key makes in the Clippers win. 

"I just think just not hesitating," Martin said of the reason for the improvement. "Just knowing the more opportunities I get to shoot it, the more often or not I'm going to make it. That's just how I feel mentally." 

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here