Former LSU guard Ralston Turner is among the new faces which Wolfpack fans will be getting used to, and hopefully seeing good things from, in the ’13-’14 basketball season.
More about him, as well as how he dealt with sitting out the ’12-’13 season from Bret Strelow of the Fayetteville Observer here…
RALEIGH – Ralston Turner’s redshirt season was trying.
As a transfer from LSU, Turner couldn’t contribute to N.C. State in 2012-13. Watching rather than playing proved difficult.
“I can tell you numerous times I was sitting over there (on the bench) like, ‘Man, I just want to play two minutes,’ ” Turner said. “I knew it wasn’t going to happen, but I was cheering for them and patiently waiting.”
The wait will be over in about six months.
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“Ralston, I thought, took advantage of a redshirt year as well as you possibly could in the weight room, strength and conditioning, practicing,” N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said during the program’s season-ending awards banquet. “I think (he) is kind of flying under the radar a little bit right now, even around the league, as far as what kind of impact Ralston can have.”
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In 2012-13, 6-6 senior Scott Wood attempted half of N.C. State’s 3-pointers and accounted for 56.5 percent of the team’s makes. Three-fourths of his career field-goal attempts were 3-pointers, and half of Turner’s shots in two seasons at LSU came from long range. He hit 34.6 percent of his 3s, going 99-for-286.
“Three-pointers are probably the best thing I do, but I’ve tried to work hard on expanding my game a little beyond the 3-point line and do some other things,” Turner said. “When I first got here, I was a shooter. All-around, I feel like I’ve gotten better in a number of areas.”
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