SACRAMENTO -- Gary Clark was pretty good in high school. At least nobody was telling him any different.
He played at Clayton, N.C., outside Raleigh, and Wake Forest and N.C. State were on his trail.
Then the assistant coach from Cincinnati came to town.
“You’ve got a lot of talent,” Larry Davis told Clark. “But you don’t play hard enough. I can’t bring my head coach down here to offer you a scholarship if you don’t start playing a little harder.”
Clark remembers.
“I kind of shrugged, because I didn’t know what he meant,” Clark said Saturday.