Hall girls basketball hopes to be strong on defense, improved on offense

Defense has been the Hall girls basketball team’s calling card over the last several seasons, and coach TJ Orlandi expects that to be the case again this year.“I think our defense is still a strength of our team and something we pride ourselves on,” Orlandi said. “It’s kept us in a lot of games the last few years, even when our offense wasn’t producing as much as we’d like.

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I’m hoping that will be the case again this year.“I think we’re a bit undersized overall, but we have girls who know how to play defense and understand what we’re wanting to do out there. That should help us in the long run.”Offensively, Orlandi expects the Red Devils to be better after they averaged 35.7 points per game last season.

“Our offense really struggled at times last year,” Orlandi said. “We had a lot of games where we were in the low single digits in turnovers and put up a lot of shots, but just struggled to get the ball in the basket. I think we do have more girls this year who can create scoring chances