John Clark<\/a> and sophomore Nic Codie handled the bulk of the minutes inside against SMU and TCU. In particular, Miller said Clark benefitted from the extra work since the 6-9 forward from Houston missed most of his senior season in high school with an injury.<\/p>\n\u201cJohn Clark is one of the most coachable freshmen that I’ve had the pleasure of coaching,\u201d Miller said. \u201cHe basically looks you in the eye and just tries to do what you ask of him. The one negative on John, it’s just his circumstances. It’s never in the player\u2019s best interest to miss an extended period of time, especially when they’re young.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think John missing that time, we were able to this spring and summer get his strength and conditioning moving in a good way. I think he’s learning and improving as much as anybody. He made huge gains over the summer, and I would just say this to you: His best days are ahead of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But did Clark show enough to Miller and the staff that the program would consider burning a redshirt and using him in the rotation?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that his role this year, we’re working together to figure it out,\u201d Miller said. \u201cBut when you see him down the road, you’re going to see a really terrific player. And I really believe this: He can be a great player for us here at Texas. There’s going to be this developmental curve that he has to get through. But because of his great attitude, I’m very confident that he’ll get through that part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Closed preseason scrimmages in college basketball are often treated like state secrets. Details slip out, but coaches try…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,19752,19753,27,29,537,19751,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-29321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-men-s-college-basketball","10":"tag-sean-miller","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-longhorns","14":"tag-texas-longhorns-men-s-basketball","15":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}