By Hale McGranahan.

If his basketball game is any kind of a reflection, Rod Hall is one of those people who bypasses Thanksgiving and goes directly into Christmas mode.

Hall was in the giving spirit in Clemson’s 86-41 win over Florida A&M. He handed out 10 assists, committed no turnovers and shot the ball twice during the season opener at Littlejohn Coliseum.

“I just try and do the best I can to take care of the ball and get others involved, getting them going so we have a good game,” Hall said.

Since arriving to Clemson three years ago, that’s been his mindset. Before Friday night, Hall totaled 287 assists and 160 turnovers. His 9.7 points per game as a junior was a career-best by four.

Brad Brownell thought his senior point guard could have easily scored in double-figures against FAMU.

“That’s one of the reasons why his (scoring) average isn’t higher. He probably could have averaged 10 last year,” Brownell said. “Whether he gets that this year, I don’t know, but it will be games like this…he only scores four (points), because he’s really not trying to.”

Hall isn’t worried about the points that end up by his name on the stat sheet, at least not yet.

“I know they’ll come eventually,” he said. “I wanted to get everybody else going.”

That’s the guy Landry Nnoko has come to know over the last two-plus seasons.

“That’s our leader. That’s the kind of nights he’s got to bring to us,” Nnoko said. “Really proud of the way he played. He shared the ball with everybody. He got everybody involved, myself, Donte (Grantham), Jaron (Blossomgame), so it was good for us.”

Tough luck from downtown. Clemson shot 4-of-17 (24 percent) from behind the 3-point line during the first half. The Tigers made three of their seven attempts in the second.

“We took a few too many 3s,” Brownell said. “That’s a little bit of our bugaboo right now. When teams just pack it in, we’re going to kind of have to do some of that.

“We’re just going to have to be a little more relaxed and a little more efficient. I think some of our younger guys, especially, kind of fall in love with that.”

Grantham missed five of the six 3s he hoisted during his college debut.

“We were settling a little bit too much,” he said of the first half. “We wanted to get to the gap, feed the big man, Landry, get easy buckets and play inside-out. We did that in the second half when we made a little run.”

Ready to explode. This offseason, Brownell was happy that Blossomgame could focus solely on basketball, not doctor’s visits and rehab workouts. That was life for the former four-star recruit in the many months after fracturing his left leg during the spring of his senior year in high school.

The injury claimed Blossomgame’s first season at Clemson, forcing him to redshirt. Complications during the recovery process nearly delayed the start of his first season on the floor.

Not quite back to 100 percent, Blossomgame went on to average 4.9 points and 5.0 rebounds over 23.4 minutes.

After re-aggravating the injury, his redshirt freshman campaign was cut short by three games, but a quick recovery allowed Blossomgame to devote his entire offseason to hoops.

“I think he’s a little more explosive, certainly, I think he’s a little more comfortable,” Brownell said. “Jaron is not one of those guys to complain…but I do think, the longer it gets away from the injury, probably the less you, naturally, worry and think about things.”

Blossomgame scored 10 points, pulled down six rebounds and had three assists against FAMU.

“I do think the full offseason has really helped him. We’re seeing him play more like a complete player,” Brownell said.