It was one of his classic rants: entertaining, educational, and ultimate with a clear point.

And a message to all who will listen.

Will Wade was in rare form Wednesday when he spoke to the media during his weekly press conference, which often turns into an enjoyable gathering that is part standup comedy and part tirade.

One thing is for sure: Wade knows precisely the point he wants to make and to whom he wants to make that point.

This week, he circled in on free throws, or the lack thereof, for his McNeese State Cowboys.

He didn’t want to hear about his 11-game winning streak or 10-0 record in the Southland Conference that has his Cowboys up three games in the standings with 10 games remaining.

Wade did have a sidebar about how there is a lot of basketball still to play, which was just the warm-up act to his free-throw talk.

Most of his ire was directed at the Cowboys’ failure to get to the free-throw line despite their dominance of the inside game.

In their 10 SLC games, McNeese has outrebounded its opponents 136-124, grabbing 40 percent of their misses. They have also won the battle down low, scoring the second-most points in the paint and beating their foes 348-242. 

Yet the Cowboys have seen opponents shoot 16 more free throws over the last three games.

“This is statistically almost impossible,” Wade said. “We lead the conference in offensive rebounding rate; we grab basically four out of every 10 of our misses. We’re second in the conference in points in the paint and we’re seventh in the conference in free throw rate.

“Somebody explain that to me because I’m curious. It’s statistically impossible, it’s statistically impossible. The two most frequent shots you get fouled on are an offensive rebound putback and a shot in the paint, and we’re number one and number two, and we’re seventh in free throw rate.”

Wade thinks he knows the reason for the numbers being skewed.

“I believe that we are getting punished for our athleticism around the rim,” he said. “And it’s not right.”

He told his players to muscle through the contact because they would not likely get future fouls.

He might have also been sending a not-so-subtle message to the league’s officials that he expects the calls to even up.

Either way, it was classic Will Wade.