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Speaker 1: seventy Sixers. I'm Matt Murphy. Quick reminder about coat Check
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Speaker 1: and we are back to player guests on coach Check.
Speaker 1: It is Blue Coats rookie Terry Harris, and I always
Speaker 1: mentioned the date that we're recording. They've all been relatively recent,
Speaker 1: so it's not that important in this case, but it
Speaker 1: kind of is for you, Terry, because we're recording this
Speaker 1: on April twenty third, and just about a month past
Speaker 1: your birthday. So happy belated birthday March twentieth. I know
Speaker 1: it's a crazy time, but how was your birthday this year?
Speaker 1: Birthday was? It was different and I was a different experience.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to go out, go to a restaurant
Speaker 1: and celebrate it, you know, I wasn't able to be
Speaker 1: around my parents, but I was still able to get
Speaker 1: to love and get calls from everybody. But you know,
Speaker 1: we're under the circumstances of the the time we're in with
Speaker 1: the quarantine and the coronavirus. You know, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to stay inside, stay safe. But it was still a
Speaker 1: good birthday, can't complain. Definitely an interesting time for sure.
Speaker 1: Really looking forward to our conversation today the rundown for
Speaker 1: the listeners out there, it's pretty much exactly what we've
Speaker 1: been doing. We've had Xavier Silas on recently, Haywood High
Speaker 1: Smith before that, Michael Bryson and Jared brown Ridge will
Speaker 1: get into Terry's background, his upbringing, high school, college ball,
Speaker 1: all of that, and we will shift into our healthy
Speaker 1: lifestyle segment presented by Christiana Care. Of course, as doctors, nurses,
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Speaker 1: Visit Christiana Care dot org. We will transition from there
Speaker 1: into this season, Terry's first professional season out of college,
Speaker 1: and then we will get to our at the buzzer
Speaker 1: questions towards the very end, which should be fun as always.
Speaker 1: But let's start with your background. As I mentioned, dix Hills,
Speaker 1: New York. So the first question is a fun one.
Speaker 1: Do you say Onlong Island or in Long Island? I
Speaker 1: say in Long Island? Really, because isn't Onlong Island Long
Speaker 1: Island thing to do. I gotta let it flow naturally,
Speaker 1: So I'm him like the Bluecoats are playing the nets
Speaker 1: tomorrow on Long Island. Yeah. Interesting, I thought that was
Speaker 1: an youre fire on. Huh Okay. How often do you
Speaker 1: tell your teammates about Long Island bagels? Definitely? Like when
Speaker 1: we were in Long Island, I was trying to tell them, Mark,
Speaker 1: you ever try to if you ever want a bagel
Speaker 1: or a slice of pizza or a Delhi Sandward, you
Speaker 1: have to have it in Long Island. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: what we're going for. See. That's good because not only
Speaker 1: did you corroborate my statement about bagels, but you also
Speaker 1: said in Long Island like two or three more times
Speaker 1: just in that sentence. So that's funny. Um. Obviously your
Speaker 1: family a big family filled with athletes. What was that
Speaker 1: dynamic like growing up definitely competitive, but it was also
Speaker 1: like it was just a great environment because like you know,
Speaker 1: you everyone was playing, whether my older sisters to my
Speaker 1: older brothers, and you know, my dad was coaching us.
Speaker 1: So it was just, uh, you know, each sleep played basketball,
Speaker 1: and it was just it was just a great environment
Speaker 1: that everyone was able to help each other out and
Speaker 1: learn from each other and compete against each other. So
Speaker 1: you know, it was definitely it's definitely amazing to grow
Speaker 1: up in that type of in that type of environment
Speaker 1: and list out all your siblings because you guys are
Speaker 1: all with the letter T, right. Yeah. So my younger sister,
Speaker 1: she's the youngest, Tory Harris. She's playing at Saint Bonadventures
Speaker 1: next year. Um, it's me and h Tyler Harris. He
Speaker 1: played he played in Argentina this summer, I mean this year.
Speaker 1: And then my older and then my older brother Tobias
Speaker 1: plays at the Sixers. And my older sister to Sia,
Speaker 1: who plays she played at Saint John's and played a
Speaker 1: year overseas. And then my older brother, my oldest brother, tj.
Speaker 1: He he played high school. But he's kind of like, uh,
Speaker 1: he's like the brains of the family, Like he's like,
Speaker 1: he's a super smart one. So we all go to
Speaker 1: him and ask questions or whatnot. And you know, my dad,
Speaker 1: who's my current my agent right now, and my mom.
Speaker 1: She didn't play basketball either. Nice and I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about to see in particular here because she seemingly
Speaker 1: started at all kind of at the next level maybe
Speaker 1: with basketball or at least had a big impact. She
Speaker 1: actually played the first few years of her college career
Speaker 1: locally for Delaware Blue Coats fans at the University of Delaware.
Speaker 1: What kind of impact did she and does she continue
Speaker 1: to have on you? Yeah, since she knows the game
Speaker 1: really well, she's and she's one of the hardest workers
Speaker 1: I know, always in the gym man. You know, she
Speaker 1: kind of told me at a young age that like
Speaker 1: repetitions is what's gonna, you know, help you perfect your craft.
Speaker 1: So seeing her doing it, seeing her um, you know,
Speaker 1: get a division on scholarship, just showed me at a
Speaker 1: young age, like, with hard work and dedication, what that
Speaker 1: can get me in the long run. So definitely, she
Speaker 1: definitely led the path for you know, the whole family
Speaker 1: in the basketball right and now at half Hollow Hills
Speaker 1: West High School, your high school in New York, you
Speaker 1: got to team up with your your older brothers, Tobias
Speaker 1: of course with the seventy six ers now and Tyler
Speaker 1: at one point. I believe, how was that were you
Speaker 1: in eighth grade? How was that whole dynamic and the
Speaker 1: difference between all your ages and then eventually playing together
Speaker 1: or nearby at the high school level. Yeah. So in
Speaker 1: the eighth grade, I was on the JV team for
Speaker 1: most of the year, and there was it was the
Speaker 1: last regular season games, so they called up a couple
Speaker 1: of the JV players and having get called up, and
Speaker 1: and you know, during the game, we were just we
Speaker 1: just began to start blow out, blowing out the team.
Speaker 1: I forgot what team game. I can't believe I forgot
Speaker 1: it though, But but and then the coach subbed me
Speaker 1: and it was me, Tyler, and Tobias all on the
Speaker 1: same court at once. And I just remember Tobias and
Speaker 1: Tyler were just like doing whatever they could to get
Speaker 1: me my first my first varsity basket buckets. So like
Speaker 1: they do me one pass and like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think I missed it real bad. In fact, I
Speaker 1: was like playing my first varsity game with my brother's
Speaker 1: a little nervous. But then after that, uh, they was like,
Speaker 1: get it to Terry, get to Terry, and uh, I
Speaker 1: threw an up, shout shout went in and I don't know,
Speaker 1: we were just all happy and it was probably one
Speaker 1: of the funniest days of my life to play with them.
Speaker 1: And I remember my dad and my mom were there too.
Speaker 1: Was just so happy and it was just like it
Speaker 1: was one of the best feelings ever. And hopefully one
Speaker 1: day we can get to re experienced that or relived
Speaker 1: that again and be on the same court again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is an awesome story, and there's plenty more to
Speaker 1: get to with your career. We're gonna get to your
Speaker 1: college career in just a second. But I'd be remiss
Speaker 1: not to ask quickly during this quarantine time about your
Speaker 1: brother Tobias's hair, because he has posted it on social
Speaker 1: media saying that he's not cutting his hair or shaving
Speaker 1: until he's back on the court. Are you buying that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I am viz. I mean, I know for
Speaker 1: a fact he can't cut his own hair, so you
Speaker 1: really can't get American now. It's completely unsanitarian, right, I
Speaker 1: know other people have I don't know whoever's with them
Speaker 1: cutting it, But I guess we're gonna see what he
Speaker 1: ends up looking like over the next weeks and months,
Speaker 1: so we will we will certainly see there. But I
Speaker 1: mentioned college, and you're a guy who had a couple
Speaker 1: different stops Houston, Baptist, Eastern Michigan and you finish your
Speaker 1: college career at North Carolina A and T. What are
Speaker 1: some of the most memorable games from your college career?
Speaker 1: I know you you did have seven threes last college
Speaker 1: season in a game again locally for our Delaware audience
Speaker 1: at Delaware State or I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: home against Delaware State, but against Delaware State you had
Speaker 1: seven threes. But what are some of the games that
Speaker 1: stand out from your college career at any of your stops? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, um, that was probably one of my um
Speaker 1: that that game at Delaware Data had seven threes, but
Speaker 1: I think, um, who was it against against Presbyterian College,
Speaker 1: I had the record. I think it was it was
Speaker 1: actually another seven threes on one a half, but they
Speaker 1: were all consecutive, so that was probably like and that
Speaker 1: was that was last season. Yeah, that was last seasons
Speaker 1: so like yeah, to you know, just to hit a
Speaker 1: record and and I remember so another thing with the family,
Speaker 1: my sister to see it would had she had the
Speaker 1: family record for I think it was six consecutive three
Speaker 1: points in a game, so I was able to top
Speaker 1: that by one more three point it was seven and
Speaker 1: a half. So I was always Now I'm able to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm the best year in the family because I
Speaker 1: did this. Wow. Yeah. And you had a few games
Speaker 1: in Delaware this year where you were knocking down some
Speaker 1: three a couple of games at home and a couple
Speaker 1: on the road as well, and we will talk about
Speaker 1: your first pro season coming up after our healthy Lifestyle segment,
Speaker 1: which we will get into right now. Our Healthy Lifestyle
Speaker 1: segment is brought to you by our friends at Christiana
Speaker 1: Care And just a quick shout out again to all
Speaker 1: of the healthcare professionals out there doing their thing on
Speaker 1: the front lines during this time. And if any of
Speaker 1: our listening audience didn't see the announcement that the Bluecoats
Speaker 1: partnered with the Wilmington Blue Rocks and minor league baseball
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Speaker 1: helping healthcare workers out there on the front lines. But
Speaker 1: let's jump in with some questions. What are you doing
Speaker 1: for the love of health? The slogan of Christiana Care
Speaker 1: at this point in time. An example could be, I know,
Speaker 1: coach Silas has a peloton and we talked to Heywood
Speaker 1: high Smith a couple of episodes to go about running
Speaker 1: locally in Wilmington's So what are you doing for the
Speaker 1: love of health? I love of health. I'm definitely keeping
Speaker 1: six feet away from everybody, and I'm running, trying to
Speaker 1: eat healthy, trying to stay in shape. Yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 1: much it. What other types of workouts have you been
Speaker 1: doing that maybe people out there can add to their
Speaker 1: routine on top of going for a walk or going
Speaker 1: for a run, anything else that you have that you're
Speaker 1: able to do it this time? Yeah, push ups, set ups,
Speaker 1: who ab circuits. When I'm running, I you know, try
Speaker 1: to get half mile in, h get a get a
Speaker 1: you know, good number of squats in, get a good
Speaker 1: number of squat jumps in, you know, just just mixing
Speaker 1: it up with a different mixing it up and trying
Speaker 1: as much as I can. And have you still been
Speaker 1: able to get through to Haywood about the running circuit
Speaker 1: or was that like a one or two time thing?
Speaker 1: It was one or two time thing. But hey, I
Speaker 1: think I think Haywood left ware. But when he's back
Speaker 1: to using to get a run in or whatever, But
Speaker 1: I see he's still he's on the app. So he
Speaker 1: posted here and there about his miles. He's definitely still
Speaker 1: doing it in his miles and in Baltimore or wherever
Speaker 1: he's at. Yep, A relatively local guy himself, being from Baltimore.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about this season. Um, it started in
Speaker 1: terms of at least the summer with a six or
Speaker 1: summer league birth for you on the roster, Um, what
Speaker 1: were the highlights of playing being a part of the
Speaker 1: six er summer league team? I think the whole one.
Speaker 1: My highlight was just the whole experience, you know, being
Speaker 1: in that environment. Uh, you know, venturing into my professional
Speaker 1: path and going against you know, the top the top
Speaker 1: rookies in the top young guys in the NBA is
Speaker 1: just one of the just a great overall experience. I
Speaker 1: learned a lot, uh started to learn about the NBA
Speaker 1: field NBA style to play, and I felt that it
Speaker 1: just it was a way to jump start my career.
Speaker 1: One thing now that if we're talking about the season
Speaker 1: in Delaware, the G League season, one thing that fans
Speaker 1: might have been able to notice on the road fans
Speaker 1: and road arenas or even the ones at the field house,
Speaker 1: is you working with coach Silas, who I mentioned we
Speaker 1: had on the podcast during the last episode, working out
Speaker 1: with him before games and things like that. I just
Speaker 1: want to talk about player development with this coaching staff
Speaker 1: in the Sixers organization, specifically in Delaware. What stood out
Speaker 1: about the player development process with the Blue Coats. I
Speaker 1: feel like the player development they're really hands on. So
Speaker 1: I think Old Style is more than just teaching me
Speaker 1: and telling me something. He would really he would get
Speaker 1: on the court and play with me and like and
Speaker 1: like give me like real game like experience. You know
Speaker 1: some games where if I wasn't going to play too much,
Speaker 1: if I didn't play too much, you know, he'd make
Speaker 1: sure that I would. I was playing one on ones
Speaker 1: with him or playing one on ones with other players.
Speaker 1: Just seeing you know, that that game feel every day
Speaker 1: and definitely pushed me, pushed me hard every day and
Speaker 1: you know, teach me different things and just you know,
Speaker 1: get the mental aspect of my game together as well.
Speaker 1: And uh, definitely that's some stuff that you know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't ever received as much in college. And it was
Speaker 1: definitely great, you know, coming into this, coming into this
Speaker 1: environment and having that and coach Silas being freshly removed
Speaker 1: from his own playing days. He can still go, right,
Speaker 1: those guys can go. Yes, you can go. Don't no,
Speaker 1: don't no, can get you guys full Yeah. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he did say in our interview that he did enjoy
Speaker 1: the transition to coaching this year. Um, but definitely he's
Speaker 1: very fresh off of his playing days, so it was
Speaker 1: always fun to see you guys battling before games and
Speaker 1: things like that. Now, in your transition from college to
Speaker 1: the pro ranks, what area or areas do you think
Speaker 1: you improved in most this past season. I feel like
Speaker 1: I quys and just starting to learn the game and
Speaker 1: learn different aspects of the game and the whole you know,
Speaker 1: being able to watch and you know, see guys play
Speaker 1: and you know, just learn this whole whole system. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a complete different system in college. So I would
Speaker 1: think you know, just just my learning and you know
Speaker 1: what to see what I'm capable of on the court
Speaker 1: was probably my band main um, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: thing that I learned from this season. We'll have more
Speaker 1: with Terry Harris in our at the Buzzer segment momentarily,
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Speaker 1: org slash PT. All right, Terry, time to go at
Speaker 1: the Buzzer and I kind of was trying to feel
Speaker 1: out this last segment. A lot of podcasts will have
Speaker 1: specific questions that they ask their guests on a weekly basis,
Speaker 1: and they're the same ones. We might tweak these as
Speaker 1: we go along, but some of them are are new
Speaker 1: that our previous guests haven't had, so let's just try
Speaker 1: them out. Let's talk about travel first. What was what
Speaker 1: was your favorite road city to visit so far? And why?
Speaker 1: I guess you can say Long Island if you want,
Speaker 1: but that would kind of be the easy way out,
Speaker 1: So maybe give us two if you can. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: like Toronto a lot Toronto was definitely just being in
Speaker 1: Canada for the first time and uh, just a good
Speaker 1: vibe in that city. So I liked that a lot.
Speaker 1: And the other city, I would say, Maine, I like,
Speaker 1: you know, the crowd that they bought in games was
Speaker 1: it was a good energy. So, you know, Maine in Toronto,
Speaker 1: just two cities that I like, I like visiting. For
Speaker 1: those who don't know, Maine had Taco Fall this past
Speaker 1: season on a two way contract with the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: I know he definitely helped their merchandise sales with his jersey,
Speaker 1: but their crowds were really good as well. This next one,
Speaker 1: I think there's some interest or at least I find
Speaker 1: interest in in uniform numbers, jersey numbers. Um and I
Speaker 1: know you were number one this year and Tobias has
Speaker 1: a really good story about his jersey number and this
Speaker 1: could change for you. But what's the story behind either
Speaker 1: your current jersey number one or your all time favorite
Speaker 1: jersey number? And there was no big story behind one.
Speaker 1: I usually like, I don't know. I used like single
Speaker 1: digit numbers and one happened to be like one of those.
Speaker 1: But I'm usually m I don't know. I'm usually five.
Speaker 1: That's like, that was like, that's my main number, but
Speaker 1: ummun for this year with X number. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the vet's got to get that first. That's all right though,
Speaker 1: But uh oh five was I used to get five
Speaker 1: because I'm a fifth child and uh in the family
Speaker 1: that was? That? Was that all behind five? Well? Something
Speaker 1: else for single digits that I think people consider at
Speaker 1: the pro level as you can work six, seven, eight,
Speaker 1: or nine rotation as well college you can't. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So I mean you still went with one that would
Speaker 1: have been legal in college with number one, But of
Speaker 1: course that could change over the course of your career obviously,
Speaker 1: depending on who's on what roster and all of that.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get to the next couple before we round
Speaker 1: it out. This one will be our fun fact question,
Speaker 1: and it's before the year in Delaware. You guys listed
Speaker 1: a bunch of fun facts and you said you're hidden
Speaker 1: talents are drawing and painting. What do you draw and
Speaker 1: how much have you been drawing or painting right now?
Speaker 1: I honestly anything really. I usually to sketch a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff out When college I minored in art, so
Speaker 1: I definitely did a lot a lot of I did
Speaker 1: a lot of drawing and a lot of painting. I
Speaker 1: had a couple of painting glasses to drawing classes. So
Speaker 1: it's something that i've you know, I've done since high school.
Speaker 1: I've been lots of art school art classes in high
Speaker 1: school and uh kind of like a little side talent
Speaker 1: that I got and um during quarantine, I've you been
Speaker 1: doing a little bit here and there and just draining
Speaker 1: my sketchbook and went out. But you know, every time
Speaker 1: I want to be a little creative, I you know,
Speaker 1: put something together and sketsnd out. That's yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: behind that. I was more of a color rather than
Speaker 1: a drawer growing out in art class. But this last
Speaker 1: question at the buzzer might not be one that gets
Speaker 1: asked to future guests because it has to apply to
Speaker 1: that person and if I've seen them do things on
Speaker 1: this app. But TikTok, I've seen that you're somewhat or
Speaker 1: at least you were at one point active on TikTok.
Speaker 1: So where is your TikTok career at right now? My
Speaker 1: TikTok I tried. I enjoyed TikTok a lot. I think
Speaker 1: it's it's really addictive. As soon as you get on
Speaker 1: the app, be over here they scrolling, we're watching videos.
Speaker 1: But I've had a couple. I had a couple of
Speaker 1: videos that've done that quite a little bit of success.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I try to do like the trends,
Speaker 1: the fun stuff and have you still been doing them?
Speaker 1: Here and there? Me and my girlfriend we did the
Speaker 1: TUTSI slide with Drake challenge. Okay, I haven't seen your
Speaker 1: version of that yet, but I think I'm gonna check
Speaker 1: it out and everybody else shit too. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: What's your TikTok name? I think it's a t cash
Speaker 1: with three ahs. All right, all right, we'll write that down,
Speaker 1: all right, Terry, you did you did well with our
Speaker 1: new at the buzzer questions there, and I really appreciate
Speaker 1: the time that's gonna do it for us here on
Speaker 1: coach Check. But thanks a lot for giving me the
Speaker 1: time and best wishes to you and your family during
Speaker 1: this this crazy time. Thank you, I appreciate it. Thanks
Speaker 1: again to the listeners out there of Coach Check. We'll
Speaker 1: be back again every other Thursday in the podcast feeds.
Speaker 1: Thanks again. That was who coats Rookie Terry Harris and
Speaker 1: I'm Matt Murphy until next time, take it or leave
Speaker 1: it at the coach check