SAN FRANCISCO – Compliments were accepted but kindly and confidently corrected by LJ Cryer as a kid.“My dad always instilled that you can be whatever you want in life,” Cryer told NBC Sports Bay Area.Even as young as 3 or 4 years old, Cryer was advanced as a child. He always was the best player on his team, and with that came praise at an early age. With the right intentions, older people would ask him if he was good at basketball, football, or anything else, looking for an easy answer.But his dad insisted on a correction for all the right reasons.“He trained me to be like, ‘No, I’m great,’ ” Cryer still remembers. “If you met me when I was a little kid and anybody would be like, ‘Oh man, you’re pretty good,’ I would look back at you and be like, ‘No, I’m great.’ “Just having that belief as a child and carrying that with me up to this point, it’s helped me get here. Sometimes you got to be a little delusional to get to where you want to go.”Cryer’s father, Lionel, played linebacker at Grambling State University, where his mother, Tamica, played volleyball. His...