R.J. Hall may be a freshman, but he's sure not playing like one.
The 5-foot-10 guard from Bloomfield, N.J. is capitalizing on an opportunity that most freshmen don't get. With only nine players under scholarship, the Red Foxes need every player to make the most of their opportunity.
While averaging six points and 14.5 minutes in Marist's first two games, R.J. Hall exploded onto the scene on Saturday night at the RAC. The freshman point guard scored 14 points on 4-for-6 shooting in 25 minutes of game-time.
R.J. Hall was pivotal in the Red Foxes win over the Robert Morris Colonials. With Robert Morris featuring a smaller lineup, Chuck Martin gave Hall an opportunity to play. Martin utilized several three guard sets that featured David Devezin, Dejuan Goodwin, and Hall in the same backcourt. Goodwin and Hall took the minutes that Kaylen Gregory and Javin Parris have been getting in the first two games.
"He's unbelievable," Martin said of Hall. "We knew that when we recruited him. He's a winner, he's always been a winner, and tonight you got a chance to see that."
Ryan Schneider said the effort of the younger players was huge, and it will need to continue for the Red Foxes to be successful.
"We're a young team, we're going to need younger guys," Schneider said. "We have nine scholarship guys dressed, so Dejuan and R.J., they're going to be relied on heavily...They're all going to be relied on heavily to have a successful year."
R.J. Hall originally committed to attend Florida Atlantic but chose not to attend when it was announced that head coach Rex Walters was leaving to coach San Francisco. Hall was an All-Essex County selection when he played at Bloomfield Tech in N.J.
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