Tiras Wade’s outside touch benefits Ragin' Cajun squad
LOUISIANA La. — Junior wingman Tiras Wade was brought to Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajun basketball program for his outside shooting, and that’s just fine with him. But he had to learn that skill.
The 6-foot-6 transfer from East Tennessee State wasn’t always the kind of player who could nail shots from beyond the 3-point arc.
“Coming out of high school, I was a slasher,” Wade said on Wednesday. “Then when I got to college, defenders started to pull back on me and I had to work on my jump shot.
“The defensive players were much smarter in college, so I had to adapt.”
Wade averaged 11.8 points per game at ETSU as a freshman, then improved to 16.3 while still getting 5.7 rebounds per game as a sophomore, so the work paid dividends.
“From my freshman to my sophomore year, I improved my 3-point shooting from 23 percent to 45 percent,” Wade said. “And I was hitting 48 percent (overall) from the field.
“That’s why I work on the fundamentals of shooting all the time.”
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Bruce Brown
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