WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.670 >>GERRY: NATE MCMILLAN BEGINS HIS THIRD SEASON AS HEAD COACH OF THE INDIANA PACERS WITH BOTH A NEW CONTRACT EXTENSION AND 2 00:00:03.670 --> 00:00:09.008 RISING EXPECTATIONS. INSIDE INDIANA BUSINESS SPORTS REPORTER BILL BENNER SAT DOWN WITH MCMILLAN THIS WEEK AS THE 3 00:00:09.008 --> 00:00:23.757 PACERS BEGAN TRAINING CAMP. BILL ... FULL DISCLOSURE HE IS EMPLOYED BY BY THE PACERS FOUNDATION. 4 00:00:23.757 --> 00:00:28.328 BUT AS YOU DID THIS INTERVIEW ONE THING ON YOUR MIND, THE PACERS IT WILL BE TOUGHER FOR THEM TO SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE THIS 5 00:00:28.328 --> 00:00:33.433 YEAR. >> LAST YEAR WAS SO UNEXPECTED NOBODY KNEW HOW THE TRADE WOULD WORK OUT THIS YEAR NOT THE CASE. 6 00:00:33.433 --> 00:00:36.903 EVEN AS THE PACERS SURPASSED EVERYONE'S PREDICTIONS LAST YEAR WITH A 48-WIN REGULAR SEASON BEFORE PUSHING CLEVELAND TO THE 7 00:00:36.903 --> 00:00:42.375 BRINK IN THE PLAYOFFS, MCMILLAN RECEIVED SCANT MENTION IN THE COACH OF THE YEAR BALLOTING. BUT HE'S LOOKING AHEAD, NOT 8 00:00:42.375 --> 00:00:51.184 BEHIND, AS THE PACERS LOOK TO RIDE RISING STAR VICTOR OLADIPO INTO BECOMING AN EASTERN CONFERENCE CONTENDER. 9 00:00:51.184 --> 00:01:06.599 HERE IS THE INTERVIEW. >> HOW DOES THE MENTAL APPROACH CHANGE NOW THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHO THE PACERS ARE? 10 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:19.612 >> WE WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF THAT AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO REALLY LISTEN TO THE OUTSIDE NOISE. 11 00:01:19.612 --> 00:01:22.749 WE DIDN'T LISTEN TO IT LAST YEAR WHEN PEOPLE SAID WE WERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL AND NOW EVERYBODY HAS US WINNING IT. 12 00:01:22.749 --> 00:01:26.920 IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE US TO COME IN AND WORK AND, AGAIN, IT'S A NEW YEAR. IT'S A NEW JOURNEY AND WE ARE 13 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:35.295 GOING TO HAVE TO REBUILD THIS ALL OVER AGAIN. WE DO HAVE SOME CHANGES FROM LAST SEASON SO IT'S NOT THE SAME 14 00:01:35.295 --> 00:01:44.437 TEAM THAT WE HAD LAST YEAR. >> THE CENTER FOR THAT IS VICTOR OLADIPO. HUNGRY TO PROVE TO A LOT OF 15 00:01:44.437 --> 00:01:52.645 PEOPLE AND TO HIMSELF THAT HE COULD PLAY THIS GAME AND HE COULD PLAY THIS GAME AT A HIGH LEVEL. 16 00:01:52.645 --> 00:01:59.953 AND ALL SEASON LONG HE CAME IN VERY CONFIDENT AND WORKED ON HIS GAME. EXTREMELY HARD. 17 00:01:59.953 --> 00:02:09.062 IN THE OFF-SEASON. CAME IN AND GOT OFF TO A GOOD START AND HE JUST WROTE THAT CONFIDENCE AND CONTINUED TO GROW 18 00:02:09.062 --> 00:02:15.935 AND GET BETTER AND IMPROVE AND ENDED UP HAVING AN ALL-STAR SEASON. >> MOVING INTO THE ST. VINCENT 19 00:02:15.935 --> 00:02:23.076 CENTER WHAT DOES HAVING THAT FACILITY MEAN FOR YOUR COACHING STAFF, THE TRAINING STAFF. THAT IS FIRST CLASS. 20 00:02:23.076 --> 00:02:30.617 >> I'VE BEEN TO MANY FACILITIES AROUND THE NBA BECAUSE WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE THERE. 21 00:02:30.617 --> 00:02:44.364 WE HAPPEN TO BE ONE OF THE TOP FIVE BEST FACILITIES AND THE STA GREAT RESOURCE FOR OUR PLAYERS THAT CAN HELP THEM IMPROVE. 22 00:02:44.364 --> 00:02:51.604 I MEAN, THE PLACE IS WHATEVER YOU NEED, IT IS THERE. WHENEVER YOU NEED IT IS THERE AND WE WERE IN BANKERS LIFE FOR 23 00:02:51.604 --> 00:03:01.981 MANY YEARS AND HAD ONE FLOOR AND A SMALL WEIGHT ROOM AND A SMALL JACUZZI ALL OF THAT. NOW WE HAVE TWO FLOORS ALL OF 24 00:03:01.981 --> 00:03:13.526 OUR OFFICES ARE IN THE BUILDING, BIGGER WEIGHT ROOM, BIGGER JACUZZI. IT IS A RECRUITING TOOL. 25 00:03:13.526 --> 00:03:22.068 IT'S BECOME A RECRUITING TOOL. ARE FREE AGENTS, WE CERTAINLY BROUGHT THOSE GUYS IN TO ALLOW THEM TO SEE THAT BEFORE THEY 26 00:03:22.068 --> 00:03:33.346 MADE THEIR DECISION. >> NORTH CAROLINA DIDN'T GET RECRUITED BY NORTH CAROLINA. THEN THEY NOTICED YOUR MOM WAS 27 00:03:33.346 --> 00:03:39.619 AN EMPLOYEE AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE AND YOU GOT NOTICED AND PLAYED TWO YEARS FOR THE WELCOME PATH. 28 00:03:39.619 --> 00:03:47.460 >> MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM I HAD SOME GOOD PLAYERS ON THAT TEAM AND A LOT OF THE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY LOOKING AT THOSE GUYS 29 00:03:47.460 --> 00:03:55.768 AND NOBODY PAYING ATTENTION TO MILLER EXCEPT FOR THE JUNIOR COLLEGE DOWN IN MURFREESBORO NORTH CAROLINA. 30 00:03:55.768 --> 00:04:08.047 AND COACH BOB WHO WAS COACHING THEIR REALLY IT WAS THE BEST DECISION FOR ME AND THINGS JUST WORKED OUT. 31 00:04:08.047 --> 00:04:19.292 A GREAT JUNIOR-COLLEGE WE WENT TO THE FINAL FOUR WHEN I WAS THERE AND WAS ABLE TO BECOME AN ALL-AMERICAN AND NC STATE KNOCKS 32 00:04:19.292 --> 00:04:28.301 ON MY DOOR IN THE COACH SCREAMED AT HIS COACHING STAFF BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T RECRUIT ME IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THE FACT THAT MY 33 00:04:28.301 --> 00:04:35.541 MOTHER WAS WORKING AT THE UNIVERSITY THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT ME. BUT WHEN THEY CAME CALLING I WAS 34 00:04:35.541 --> 00:04:43.816 EXCITED BECAUSE I'VE LIVED FIVE MINUTES FROM THE UNIVERSITY, HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY FOR NC STATE AND PLAY IN THE ACC WHICH 35 00:04:43.816 --> 00:04:52.892 AT THAT TIME WAS ALL THE KIDS IT WAS THEIR DREAM TO PLAY IN THE ACC. >> WHEN YOU WERE A KID GROWING 36 00:04:52.892 --> 00:04:59.866 UP IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA DID YOU EVER ALLOW YOURSELF TO SAY YOU WOULD HAVE ONE OF THE 30 MOST NOTED JOBS IN BASKETBALL? 37 00:04:59.866 --> 00:05:09.575 >> IT WAS NOT A DREAM OF MINE TO PLAY IN THE NBA. CERTAINLY NOT TO COACH IN THE MBA BECAUSE, YOU KNOW FOR MY 38 00:05:09.575 --> 00:05:19.352 COMMUNITY THERE WAS NOBODY WHO HAD DONE THAT. AS I MENTIONED THE DREAM FOR ME WAS TO PLAY IN THE ACC AND THERE 39 00:05:19.352 --> 00:05:30.463 WERE NOT KIDS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT PLAYED IN THE ACC SO THAT WAS MY MBA TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND OVER 30 40 00:05:30.463 --> 00:05:38.738 YEARS. IN THE NBA AND HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR I AM COACHING THE PACERS. 41 00:05:38.738 --> 00:05:47.880 I STILL PINCH MYSELF. >> GREAT REPORT. COACH MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW LARGELY THE SAME TEAM, BUT 42 00:05:47.880 --> 00:05:57.356 DEFINITELY SOME NEW TALENT THAT COULD CHANGE THE DYNAMIC. >> ABSOLUTELY AND IT IS A DYNAMIC SETTING, TYREE COMING IN 43 00:05:57.356 --> 00:06:04.263 FROM MEMPHIS AND DOUG MCDERMOTT WHO WILL REALLY HELP THE OUTSIDE SHOOTING AND THEN THE NEW POINT GUARD AARON HOLIDAY.