Seattle Supersonics
# Thanks to McMillan's tutelage, the Sonics have improved their scoring average from 97.1 points per game to 99.2 this season while reducing their points allowed from 97.8 to 96.5.
# McMillan was named Western Conference Coach of the Month for November after the Sonics started the season 13-3.
# November was one of three months in which the Sonics only lost three games.
They were 9-3 in December and 8-3 in February, going a combined 30-9 in those three months.
# During this season, McMillan became the NBA's fourth-longest-tenured coach, trailing only Rick Adelman (Sacramento), Gregg Popovich (San Antonio) and Jerry Sloan (Utah)
# With the Sonics win March 2 at Cleveland, McMillan earned the 200th win of his coaching career. On March 15, he passed Bernie Bickerstaff to become the third-winningest coach in Sonics history after Lenny Wilkens (478) and George Karl (384). He passed Bill Russell (162) earlier in the season.
*Quotable*
"You have to give their team a lot of credit and I think you have to give Nate a lot of credit. They are playing the exact style you have to play to be successful with the personnel they have. Right now, Nate’s doing the best job in the league coaching." - *Indiana Coach Rick Carlisle (11/28/04)*
"Nate is a (heck) of a coach. I have always known (the Sonics) are hard-playing, well-coached, tough, smart - a mirror image of really what he was as a player." - *Houston Coach Jeff Van Gundy (4/11/05)*
"McMillan edges them both (Rick Carlisle and Scott Skiles) because the Sonics, with Danny Fortson passing as the marquee offseason addition to a team that went 37-45 in 2003-04, have 50 wins." - *Marc Stein, ESPN.com (4/15/05)*
**** The Crying Game
Neil Jordan's story of an IRA terrorist
(Stephen Rea) is a remarkably well-written
piece of work that at first seems to follow its
protagonist in aimless yet intriguing direc-
tions, but eventually reveals itself to be a per-
fectly structured look at violence, race, love,
and sexuality. Rea is ordered to guard a kid-
napped British officer (Forest Whitaker), but
he begins to care for the hostage and later
flees to London, where he meets the officer's
girlfriend (Jaye Davidson). The two halves of
the film, which contain some completely
unpredictable plot twists, become mirrors of
one another, reflecting how understanding and
compassion may be a means of salvation.
-CR. Loews Harvard Square
