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...quietest kids I’ve ever known,” Pat Richardson says. Richardson went through a lot of kids in over a decade coaching Brother Rice, but few as dazzling and as puzzling as Harvey, who captained the team his senior year...
...Harvey, now a senior guard and the leading scorer for the Harvard Crimson, has seen his overall vocal presence evolve since his days on the Chicago hardwood. It had to. Harvey was a coach’s dream at Brother Rice—non-flashy, unselfish, fundamentally sound—but in at least one respect made his coaches cringe...
...Harvey thrived, in part because things came easy for him. He was a solid infielder for Rice’s baseball team before dedicating himself to basketball, and distinguished himself on the golf course and in pool halls. (“He could have jumped on a horse and figured that out by the end of the day,” Richardson says.) His ability to adapt to situations within games was evident in even the most minute aspects of his play...
That kind of talent will forgive a lot annoying silences, but once Harvey got to Cambridge and Division I hoops, he knew that he would have to adapt in a broader way than just knowing where the ball...
...remember in high school, Coach would always get on me for not speaking up,” Harvey says. “He would get on me in practice, always try to get me going. It wasn’t until college that I realized how important it was—basically, being the young guy it was kind of like, ‘Alright, if coach wants me to talk, I’d better talk. I’ve got to fit in here somewhere...