Nate McMillan
Nate McMillan
Nathaniel "Nate" McMillanis an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. He coached the Seattle SuperSonics from 2000 to 2005, and the Portland Trail Blazers from 2005 to 2012...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth3 August 1964
CityRaleigh, NC
ball free movement passing shooting success throw
Our shooting from the perimeter and our free throw shooting were great. I thought the success we had (with 3-pointers) had a lot to do with ball movement and passing the ball with rhythm.
asked job regardless
The thing is you have a job to do. And when you're asked to go into a game, you've got to go, regardless of the situation, the score.
dealing experience majority players team
When you're dealing with a team that doesn't have the experience ... having players out there who can read and know where to go and where to be, it helps. I'm comfortable with him, the majority of the time, being in the right spot.
deal figure help league percent playing situation surgery team tough toughest ways
That's a tough situation to come off. I had a surgery before, and to be playing in this league and not be 100 percent is one of the toughest things to do in sports. ... But it's something you have to deal with. It's something you have to figure out, 'How can I help that team? How can I help my team?' There are other ways that you have to find, ways to help your team get better.
cake guys league needs worked
I think he's worked hard, but he needs to play. The thing is, that's not a league where you just go and it's a cake walk. For him, there's going to be guys down there challenging him because he's up here, he has a position, and they want to come up here.
best
We'll always do what is best for the team.
digging early fight game holes ourselves
We've got to play better defense. We can't keep digging holes for ourselves early in the game then try to fight our way out of it.
against control encouraged figure games good win
I am encouraged that we've been in control in two games against good teams. Now we have to figure out how to win those games.
against factors game good guys missing motivate opportunity pieces played written
Letdown is written on this game. For us, we have other factors that should motivate us, not so much that we played a good game against the Lakers. We only have 11 wins. This is an opportunity for us. Just as those guys are missing some pieces over there, they also see opportunity.
nights
Some nights you just get beat. You do the right thing most of the time, but you just get beat. I think this is one of those nights.
ball commitment containing defending defense defensive stopped whether
No defense at all. There was no commitment at the defensive end of the floor. Whether it was rebounding the ball, containing the ball or defending the perimeter, we just stopped playing. We quit.
capable road shown together win
When you play like we did tonight, those road games, you can't win a game. You have to really be together out on the road and we haven't shown that we are capable of doing that.
continue good hopefully
We've had some good days. We've got to get better in that area. We've been working on that, and hopefully we'll continue to improve.
adjust attitude constantly drama gets goes minutes night playing saying single together until worse
We can't put together 48 minutes and we're saying the same thing every single night and every single day. It's just drama and it constantly goes on with this team. Until we adjust the attitude of playing the game, it's going to get worse before it gets better.