Nate McMillan: Coach of the Month

Post #1 » by **Jamaaliver** » Thu Apr 1, 2021 9:05 pm

D21 · Post #2 » by **D21** » Thu Apr 1, 2021 9:55 pm

Great job Nate, but he has to take care of players, don't play them to soon as it was not good with Hunter. Better have a 100% healthy roster in two two weeks than having a full roster next week with some players being 30% injured

tbhawksfan1 · Post #3 » by **tbhawksfan1** » Fri Apr 2, 2021 10:41 am

Congrats to Nate. He looks like he is going to keep his job long-term

Post #4 » by **Jamaaliver** » Mon Apr 5, 2021 2:30 am

tbhawksfan1 wrote:Congrats to Nate. He looks like he is going to keep his job long-term

I have to ask...is that a good thing? :dontknow:

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tbhawksfan1 · Post #5 » by **tbhawksfan1** » Mon Apr 5, 2021 6:46 am

Jamaaliver wrote:
tbhawksfan1 wrote:Congrats to Nate. He looks like he is going to keep his job long-term

I have to ask...is that a good thing?

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A little strange that you ask if it would be a good thing and then your two twitter posts.... :lol:

It certainly looks like a good thing to me. Nate has tranformed this team and as your tweeters suggest, this isn't his first success.

Post #6 » by **Jamaaliver** » Tue Apr 6, 2021 2:15 am

tbhawksfan1 wrote:
Jamaaliver wrote:
tbhawksfan1 wrote:Congrats to Nate. He looks like he is going to keep his job long-term

I have to ask...is that a good thing?

A little strange that you ask if it would be a good thing and then your two twitter posts....

It certainly looks like a good thing to me. Nate has tranformed this team and as your tweeters suggest, this isn't his first success.

I like Nate as a coach. The players have obviously responded well to him, and I wouldn't hate if he took the job FT. But I don't believe he gets us to championship contention. I don't believe that Trae becomes an All-NBA/MVP caliber superstar under his tutelage.

The enemy of good is great; and I want a great team. Just making the playoffs is no longer enough.

(There's a reason Nate McMillan was fired last summer and not offered another HC position immediately like Doc Rivers.)

Post #7 » by **HMFFL** » Tue Apr 6, 2021 3:10 am

Congrats to Coach Nate. What a job he's done!

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tbhawksfan1 · Post #8 » by **tbhawksfan1** » Tue Apr 6, 2021 7:31 am

Jamaaliver wrote:
tbhawksfan1 wrote:
Jamaaliver wrote:

I have to ask...is that a good thing?

A little strange that you ask if it would be a good thing and then your two twitter posts....

It certainly looks like a good thing to me. Nate has tranformed this team and as your tweeters suggest, this isn't his first success.

I like Nate as a coach. The players have obviously responded well to him, and I wouldn't hate if he took the job FT. But I don't believe he gets us to championship contention. I don't believe that Trae becomes an All-NBA/MVP caliber superstar under his tutelage.

The enemy of good is great; and I want a great team. Just making the playoffs is no longer enough.

(There's a reason Nate McMillan was fired last summer and not offered another HC position immediately like Doc Rivers.)

I kind of agree with you in that Nate might be more "very good" than "great". Problem is, how many great coaches are there and what are the chances we can get one?

I also think that Nate might be getting a bit of a raw deal on his past accomplishments. His teams always seemed to over-achieve...until the playoffs, where they seemed to under-achieve. Did those teams really have the talent to compete at that level though?

Sometimes I think that it's impossible to become a "great" coach without having a talent stacked team that goes very far in the playoffs. That it takes at least a very good coach and great talent to do that.

As I said, I don't think that there are many great coaches out there and I think that Nate is very good. It also seems clear that the players are very happy with him.

Maybe the best move is for the GM and players to make Nate great

Post #9 » by **Jamaaliver** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:48 am

Nate might have an argument for some Coach of the Year votes.

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Post #10 » by **Jamaaliver** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:03 pm

The Hawks Are in the Right Places at the Right Time

Atlanta struggled with the freedom granted under Lloyd Pierce, but has found new life in Nate McMillan’s more structured system

Some coaching changes are intended to transform a team. Others are simply meant to remind them of what they were always supposed to be. Unsurprisingly, McMillan has the young Hawks on a steady march (or flight?) toward competence, with a 16-5 record in his tenure achieved largely by beating the sorts of teams Atlanta should beat but hadn’t previously. The wins the Hawks pulled off this week were beyond them a few months ago; this is now a club that can deliver a winning streak on the road, missing not only Trae Young and John Collins but six key rotation players in total.

Getting by without that much shot creation wouldn’t be possible unless a team is practiced in its ball movement, which is to say it wouldn’t be possible without a confidence in the designs McMillan brought to bear. Every developing team eventually has to confront some version of this same idea: Is the clearest way forward to give players more freedom or more structure? The answer very much depends on the people involved. Not all “young talent” functions the same; the needs of a team run by a 19-year-old point guard might be dramatically different from one relying on a 19-year-old center. Atlanta’s roster has youth all over, but having experienced a kind of freedom under Pierce and a different discipline under McMillan, the team’s record speaks—loudly, emphatically—to their apparent need.

“One of the things I talk about with our guys is getting organized,” McMillan says.

Under Pierce, it was too easy for the shooters on the weak side of the floor to idle in their spots while Young and Clint Capela worked the pick-and-roll. Young actually has the ball in his hands even more under McMillan according to NBA Advanced Stats, but he’s using that time differently when he’s waiting for Kevin Huerter to clear a screen for an open 3 instead of pounding his dribble to dictate the action himself.

It’s no wonder the Hawks are beginning to find their calm. Even Atlanta’s late-game nightmares seem to have abated; after ranking 30th in fourth-quarter net rating under Pierce, Atlanta has posted the second-best mark in the final frame during McMillan’s time at the head of the bench.

There is obvious value in a coach pulling the right levers at the right time; leaning on Gallinari to help close out games (and sometimes entire fourth quarters), for one, has made Atlanta a notably more flexible team. But so much of the Hawks’ recent success comes from the certainty of structure, and the safety in knowing where the guardrails are.

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Galloisdaman · Post #11 » by **Galloisdaman** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:54 pm

What I bet the coach likes about this team is at the end of games he can throw out a few guys that will hit almost 90% of their FTs and even more around 85%.

Post #12 » by **Jamaaliver** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:28 pm

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Full Hearts
Can't Lose

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shakes0 · Post #13 » by **shakes0** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:00 pm

Great move by Nate last night benching Bozo Hill at the start of the second half in favor of Goodwin.

Can't wait for our players to get healthy so we can start seeing some DNP's next to Bozo's name in the boxscore.

Galloisdaman · Post #14 » by **Galloisdaman** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:35 pm

I think Nate has done a great job but especially in the last 2-5 minutes of games.

This team has a lot of talented guys. I hope Nate finds a way to stick to the best 9 guys in the playoffs.

jayu70 · Post #15 » by **jayu70** » Tue May 4, 2021 1:54 pm

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