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
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.
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I want to give coach Hill credit for having his boys ready to play. With all their suspensions and injuries, that team came out and played really hard. That's a testament to coach Hill.
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.
Defensively, I just thought that we weren't aggressive. We want to get up into our man's chest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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If you're playing the game the right way, you play hard and you play together. And I think if you continue to do that you'll win some games. So yes, I am happy with the effort and the focus and the togetherness that we're seeing.
finishing fourth games growing process quarter
Finishing games in the fourth quarter is something we have got to learn. It's part of a growing process for a young team.
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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.
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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.
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We're encouraged by the improvement but our execution down the stretch of these games tends to break down. Our spacing was poor. We didn't respond well to traps and our ball movement slowed, causing way too many shot clock violations. Tonight in the fourth quarter we seemed to settle for a perimeter game.