Scoutt invited PJ from the Hornets intriguing summer league.

Jeff Peterson struck gold when he signed Moussa Diabate last fall, acquiring the great French man who quickly turned into a key contributor in Charlotte’s Hornets frown at the top of the short, and he is likely to redo it while the Hornets continue to run the bottom of their list in order to accumulate talents and active.

His most recent role of dice came in the calm of a Wednesday afternoon by press release.

Last week, the Hornets announced their list for the NBA Summer League 2025 in Las Vegas, and many of the expected names were listed. Kon Knueppel, Liam McNeley, Ryan Kalkbrenner, Sion James, Kj Simpson and Tidjane Salauün made the team’s head, but another name for the team threw alarm ringtone in my head.

Former Clemson Tiger and Denver Nugget PJ Hall.

Many have been done about the shortage of talents from the Charlotte court after a burst of intersane movements, so the extension of an invitation from the summer league to a young large with a NBA seasoning is intriguing to say the least.

* Insert the meme of finger Brian Windhorst here. *

Between the Hall pedigree, the lack of depth of the court before Charlotte and their double -meaning contract niche, I thought it could be prudent to dive into some of the university films of PJ Hall in Clemson to determine if the Hornets found another potential contributor of the NBA before the action of the summer league.

The Hall rider is the quintessence of the classic “eye test” debate against “analytical data”.

Looking at the 6’10 game “Power Forward / Center, it looks like the type of tall stretch that can hang in the modern NBA.

In his last season in Clemson, Hall lowered only 31.5% of his three -point attempts. In his first season of G-League with Grand Rapids Gold, he improved slightly, nailing 34.6% of his long-distance shots, but always leaving a little to be desired during the extrapolation of his potential impact as a large section at the NBA.

Inside the arc, Hall plays the game with its crushing crushing out of the ball.

As screening, the former free agent not drafted is wreaking havoc, establishing a solid and solid contact which releases his teammates to prosper. Clemson used its physical framework as a screening on a myriad of actions; Dribble of the hands, pickers and jumps, pins, etc., and when a guard did not manage to take into account the house entering the hall, they often flowed in the field when they saw stars after having contacted the tall man well constructed.

Although Hall impresses in the screening of actions with his physique, a part of this same punch is missing in contact with the edge. When you operate in the position, Hall tends to reduce its already short framework (for NBA central standards), extending the distance between him and the basket instead of playing standing and through the chest of the defenders of the opposing position. Hall does not have nba vertical pop to play and more defenders, further accentuating his lack of height when he plays inside.

It has not set up crazy assistance numbers in Clemson, but Hall projects as a high content player who can work as an oversized offensive center on the perimeter. Charles Lee specifically uses his great men in series of five outings, asking them to define solid screens and to use dribble transfer actions, and Hall can do so. He launched smooth passes like a tiger, raising eyebrows with his vision and timing to hit his teammates on the cuts.

In defense, Hall is a classic twener: not fast enough to change and play on the perimeter, not large enough to keep the centers opposing.

As a senior, Hall had trouble hitting with great opposing men like Armando Bacot and Dj Burns. Admittedly, Bacot is one of the best great men in the illustrious history of the University of North Carolina, and Burns went on an airplane solely adorned with Bill Walton and Hakeem Olajuwon for the sections of 2024, but Hall was powerless to slow down these two.

It brings a few Promise as an assistant of the low man because of his 7’1 Lèle “, but the lack of lateral speed of Hall makes him difficult for him to put himself in the right positions to use his length. He boasted of an impressive block rate (5.6) as a senior in Clemson, but a large part of this was due to his strength which overpowed opposing students.

Charles Lee often compares the deployment of large that play with different styles to launch different locations on a defense. In Hall, Charlotte could add a new land to their already complete arsenal.

Moussa Diabate is the large undersized, energetic and first of all of the defense who can move to the perimeter and hold his, Ryan Kalkbrenner is the traditional rim protection center which plays around the edge on the attack, and Mason Plumlee is the warned and veteran option which proverbially gives you four points when you need four and four points when you need ten.

The signature hall to a bidirectional contract would give the Hornets a fourth option at the center which can space the soil and provide a passable defense to Charlotte to execute looks of five outings at both ends of the field. Wounds occur, because Hornets fans know it too well, and add another big man to the Hornets system that plays a completely different style from those they use would be a good process. In a pinch, Hall could make the trip to the south in Charlotte and give the Hornets for a few minutes to the four or five.

If it is not hall, a player of his archetype should fill the last slit of the bidirectional contract of the Hornets. Fortunately for PJ, he has a few weeks to assert himself in Charlotte.

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