Wednesday\u2019s loss to Golden State<\/a> when he posted a career-best nine points to go with seven rebounds in 15 minutes, making 4 of 6 attempts including a ferocious right-handed dunk.<\/p>\n\u201cYeah, he\u2019s just a smart player, competes at a high level, gets the playbook,\u201d Kon Knueppel said. \u201cHe\u2019s quick to pick everything up. Just a high energy guy that knows how to play and that gets you on the floor and he\u2019ll be successful around it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quickly, Hall has become a fan favorite. And it\u2019s been that way since he inked his deal to return to the Carolinas and the announcement was made on social media.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d Hall said. \u201cIt\u2019s really funny. You see stuff like that for quote-unquote bigger players not signing a two-way. I saw people quoting the Meek Mill song, \u2018It\u2019s like I used to pray for times like this.\u2019 I was like, \u2018All right, now.\u2019 It\u2019s really cool, man. Obviously, a lot of people from Clemson live in Charlotte. So, it\u2019s cool just to have familiar faces all around the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up a Panthers fan, I grew up a Bobcats fan, grew up watching Al Jefferson and then Kemba (Walker) and he\u2019s with the Hornets now. So, I mean, it\u2019s been awesome and a great experience to be able to come back, have that full circle moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall is zeroed in on bringing energy by lifting up others and making it easier for them to score with hard screens. Rebounding is also a strong suit. He\u2019s still trying to get better at reading the pick-and-roll on defense and crafting his shot beyond the arc to help stretch the defense.<\/p>\n
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But he\u2019s intent on continuing to prove he belongs in the NBA.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s crazy,\u201d Hall said. \u201cI think you kind of put it in perspective whenever you go back home \u2014 like home, home \u2014 and you talk to my boys and they\u2019re like, \u2018Yeah, dude, what\u2019s it like seeing LeBron (James) and stuff?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t really think much of it.\u2019 But three years ago, I\u2019d have been like, \u2018Holy crap! It\u2019s LeBron.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, you kind of get desensitized to it. But when you take a step back and look at it like, wow, I\u2019m at the pinnacle of basketball right now. Enjoy it while it\u2019s here, keep working and make it last as long as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PJ Hall still can\u2019t believe it. Of all the pinch-me moments that have transpired during the journey up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[24220,7,684,473,38560,3878,305,164,685,178,968,966,516,12445,177,121,1104,6,26848],"class_list":["post-510691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-al-jefferson","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlotte-observer","tag-charlottehornets","tag-cleveland","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-hornets","tag-ja-morant","tag-kon-knueppel","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-lebron","tag-mason-plumlee","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-moses-moody","tag-nba","tag-pj-hall"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115822433764753043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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