"They've got international players who can turn results like this around at any moment," Harris said before listing the Dragons/Kiwis winger Jason Nightingale, former Kiwis captain Benji Marshall and Kangaroos test player Josh Dugan.
The Hastings Boys' High School old boy pointed out the Storm have prepared as they do every week in the season. "We always prepare as if we are going to have to beat the best. In tough games like we're expecting we know the best team will be the one which turns up with the best attitude."
Harris has played all previous 19 games for the Storm, mostly in the second row, and is rapt to be starting at centre on home turf.
Centre is where he played most of his games for Tamatea before heading to Melbourne at the end of 2009 to begin his first two-year contract with the Storm.
While he played a couple of Hawke's Bay age-group rugby matches on McLean Park Harris said he didn't remember too much about the venue so he couldn't pass on too much knowledge to his teammates that could give the Storm an edge in the game.
"From what I hear the ground has changed a bit since those days. But we've all been pretty excited about bringing this game to the Bay," Harris said.
The 2010 Ngati Kahungunu Junior Sportsman of the Year has yet to be hounded by relations for freebie tickets for tomorrow night.
"All of the family are sorted as they purchased tickets as soon as they went on sale. A few of the other Kiwi boys in the side might have to source some for relations ... Hopefully the park will be packed."
Storm coach Craig Bellamy stressed the importance of backing up the powerful display against the Panthers. "We've got to make sure we back that effort up this week, next week and the week after," he said.
"The two games before [last Friday night] we'd started really poorly."
Bellamy also eased any concerns surrounding the knee of Queensland scrumhalf Cooper Cronk and pointed out the State of Origin trio of Cronk, captain Cameron Smith and Will Chambers had been given the start of the week off training.
"If it was a close game we probably wouldn't have taken him off [Cronk against Penrith last Friday night] but the game was gone when we took him off," Bellamy said.
"He hadn't played for four or five weeks ... Then he played three games in 10 days. We just thought it was safe to get him off. Certainly this week he hasn't done any training but that's what we wanted with him, Smithy and Will.
"They've had some time off and hopefully that will freshen them up for the rest of the season."