Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
When Jaylon Hall had a scoreless first half in the opening game against Green Bay last weekend, coach Scott Nagy had an uh-oh feeling, wondering whether the fourth-year junior would mentally check out for the night.
It’s happened before. If the multi-talented wing didn’t get off to a good start in his younger days, he wasn’t much help to the Raiders after that.
“Here’s the deal with Jaylon: Offensively, he was a little bit of a wreck in the first half. And I’m telling you, in the past, we probably would have lost him for the whole game. I’m super proud of him — SUPER proud — that he was able to overcome that,” Nagy said.
“He was able to work through that IN the game, so we didn’t lose him.”
With his confidence at an all-time high, the Louisville native recovered after an 0-for-5 first half, which included clanking all three of his 3-point attempts, and finished with 12 points, seven rebounds and five assists in the 67-53 win.
He followed that with a career-high 22 points on 7-of-9 shooting in Sunday’s win.
