Martin, 20, was a late inclusion in the Crows' side that suffered a harsh reality check at the hands of St Kilda on Sunday and he justified his call-up with an eye-catching 16-possession, one-goal effort.
"You don't know what to expect, I mean everyone tells you how hard and how fast it's going to be, but to get the first one under my belt feels pretty good," Martin said following the 57-point defeat.
"I still haven't really cleared my head with it. I got elevated on Wednesday and I got a phone call at 8:30 this morning to tell me that I was playing [in place of Robert Shirley who came down with the flu].
"It's all been pretty quick, but it's probably good to have it that way because I didn't have too much time to think about it.
"So I felt pretty good coming out actually. I think when I was a kid I used to get pretty nervous before races at school and stuff like that, but that's pretty much gone now. I was probably more anxious just to get out there and show what I can do."
The Meningie lad announced his arrival in no uncertain terms in the first quarter when he roved an Andrew McLeod spillage and showed great poise in traffic to slot his AFL goal.
"I don't really remember it coming off hands, but it fell straight to me," he recalled.
"I've always liked to try and step blokes, so I didn't really think about it, I just did it and I was lucky enough that she actually swung back for me because I didn't think it was going through off the boot.
"That goal probably settled me down a bit and then I had another one kicked to me and I managed to hold onto it.
"That was probably one of my biggest fears, that I was going to let one go straight through my hands, but I held onto that one and that allowed me to not get too overawed by the whole situation."
At 180 cm Martin is not your stereotypical basketball convert, but the round ball game was his passion up till the age of 17 when AFL took centre stage.
The pacy onballer showed enough to suggest the Crows may have uncovered a gem on their rookie list and coach Neil Craig was glowing in his assessment of the debutant's game.
"For our supporters that's a plus for us out of the game; they get to see another player and I actually thought he did some really, really good things," Craig said.
"I was really pleased for Brodie. That would have been a really tough initiation to come into his first AFL game when we couldn't get much control.
"I thought he showed some speed, some understanding and some good execution in a game where there was that sort of pressure."
