Nate McMillan

They were the two seed that year, so it's one time that he did it.

Oh, Nate McMillan.

No.

Only once.

Fred Brown, he made one All-Star team, and he won the '79 chip in Seattle.

We got Nate McMillan, who was a defensive-minded guard who played in the late '80s and '90s.

That's a basketball card I pulled all the time.

And then Nick Collison, who played over 900 games in both cities, Seattle and OKC.

There you go.

Olden Polynice, uh, Nate McMillan, uh, Michael Cage.

I had guys like that, and then we went and got, oh, Dale Ellis.

Oh, yeah.

If you in the conversation of that, you good anyway.

Yeah.

Uh, Nate McMillan.

Uh, that's my big brother, man.

They added Blake Ahern.

They added Jamel McMillan, who's Nate McMillan's son.

They added Rex Calamain, Jonah Hersku, who worked for the team during the Tibbs years, and then Taj.

And then they also have a bunch of player development coaches, Martin Rancic, Jordan Brink, Pete Crawford, L.D. Williams.

... by any stretch.

And what made him a good defender in the past with Nate McMillan as his coach was they just d- drop, and he would block everything and-

Yeah

... you know, if it weren't for the existence of Rudy Gobert, might've been on some All-Defense teams 'cause it was positioned when he was that good.

I think most people like definitely our age, we kind of look at gary payton and sean kemp

so late 80s early 90s that was the core you're looking at xavier mcdaniel and nate mcmillan like that's that's sean kemp gary payton the

rain man

rayman so

Xavier McDaniel drafted 1985.

He was a starter.

Nate McMillan, second round in 86.

Sean Kemp drafted 17th, 1989.

They only won one game against the Bulls, but they clearly were something.

And so for the sake of what we're talking about today, I'm going to say from 2010-11 to, this is a stretch certainly at the end, but 2016-17, so the first year of Nate McMillan, being obviously when they traded Paul George at the end of that, the death of this group.

So how long was this? I mean, their peak...

was two years, three years, you know, what do you want to call their first heat loss in 2012, they make the second round, and I think that year gets forgotten as a fun year, personally, but, you know, pushing LeBron, winning a round, like, making the conference finals, those years are certainly in their peak, they did not win a round after the gap year of their time, right, so I think that's got to be out of it, so I would say it's a, at most, you're saying three years, at Shortest, you're saying two years.

They almost made it out of the first round.

25th in offense.

Nate McMillan comes in for Paul George's final season.

They go to 16th in offense.

And then you're just like, Nate Bjorkman.

Like, Nate McMillan was so much better than Nate Bjorkman.

It's not even funny.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, you got one out of me.

You know, you did.

But Nate McMillan was like a star.

Standard, good coach.