Scouting in the fascinating NBA Summer League Invitee PJ Hall

Jeff Peterson met gold when he signed Moussa -Diabate last autumn and took over the French great man, who quickly developed into an important participant in the Charlotte Hornets who had before the scrap heap.

His last dice effect came in the silence of a Wednesday afternoon through the press release.

Last week the Hornets announced their squad for the NBA Summer League 2025 in Las Vegas, and many of the expected names were listed. Kon Knueppel, Liam McNeeley, Ryan Kalkbrenner, Sion James, KJ Simpson and Tidjane Salauün led the squad, but another name in the team threw some alarm bells in the head.

Former Clemson Tiger and Denver Nugget PJ Hall.

After a flood of offseason movements, a lack of Charlotte's lack of talent in front of the Court was made, so that the expansion of a summer league to a young big big big with some NBA spices, told the least, is fascinating.

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Between Hall's family tree, Charlotte's lack of judicial depth and its open two-way contract slot, I thought it could be advisable to get into a PJ Hall College film in Clemson to find out whether the Hornets found another potential NBA-actively before the Summer League campaign.

Hall's jumper is the Initom of the classic debate “Augentest” against “Analytical Data”.

When he looks at the game of 6,10 “Power Forward/Center, it looks like the kind of stretch big that can hang in the modern NBA. Hall's jumping shot is mechanically so good and combines a smooth publication with a well -balanced basis, but the statistics do not match the volume.

In his last season in Clemson, Hall was only 31.5% of his three -point attempts. In his virgin G-League season with the Grand Rapids Gold, he improved easily and took 34.6% of his shots from a long distance, but was still a little to be desired if he extrapolated his possible effects as a distance at the NBA level.

Hall plays the game in the ARC with its overwhelming off-ball body.

As a screen, the former, naughty Free Agent Chaos shines and makes a strong, solid contact that makes his teammates thrive. Clemson used his physical framework as a screener for a variety of actions; Dribble Hand Offs, Pick and Pops, Pin Downs, etc., and if a guard was not taken into account for Hall's incoming canvas, they would often be shut down the Court after seeing stars after contacting the well -built great man.

Although Hall is impressed with his physicality of actions in the front of actions, it lacks a certain blow that plays the same blow through contact around the edge. When operating in the post office, the tendency tends to reduce its short (for NBA Center standards) frame and to extend the distance between him and the basket instead of playing upright and through the chest of the opposing post. Hall also lacks vertical pop at NBA level to play the defenders, which further emphasizes its lack of height when playing.

In Clemson he did not create crazy number of assist, but Hall projects as a high-feeling player who can act as an oversized offensive hub to the scope. Charles Lee in particular uses his big men in five-out sets and asks them to set strong screens and do dribble hand-off actions, and Hall can do so. As a Tiger, he threw some slick passes and raised the eyebrows with his view and timing to meet teammates in cuts.

Hall is a classic tweer in defense: not fast enough to change and play on the circumference, not big enough to protect opposing centers.

As a senior, Hall tried to beat big men like Armando Bacot and DJ Burns. Admittedly, Bacot is one of the best great man in the famous history of the University of North Carolina, and burns rose to a plane that was only shown by Bill Walton and Hakeem Olajuwon for routes from 2024, but Hall was futile to slow these two.

He brings some Promise as a helper with a low man because of his 7'1 “wingspan, but Hall's lack of lateral speed makes it difficult for him to get into the right positions. He praised himself with an impressive block rate (5.6) as a senior citizen at Clemson, but a large part of it was on his strength, the opposing college students overwhelmed.

Charles Lee often compares the use of bigs that play with different styles to throw different parking spaces on a defense. In Hall, Charlotte was able to add a new field to her Arsenal, which was already rounded off.

Moussa-Diabate is the under-sized, energetic, defending great, which can switch to the circumference and take up itself.

The signing of Hall for a two-way contract would give the Hornets a fourth option in the center, which places the ground and gives Charlotte a suitable defense to guide five at both ends of the court. Injuries happen, as Hornets fans know too well, and another tall man to insert into the Hornets system that plays a completely different style than those you use would be a good process. In a pinch, Hall could make the quick trip south to Charlotte and give the hornets either at the four or the five.

If not Hall, a player in his archetyps should fill the last two-way contract window of the Hornets. Fortunately for PJ, he has a few weeks to realize himself in Charlotte.

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