Austin McBeth Quotes

Tony Parker, if you`ve been watching this year, has just been picking people apart on the pick-and-rolls. We made it a major emphasis and made a decent effort. ... It was tough to contain him tonight.

I don`t even know what I was thinking. Obviously I wasn`t in my right mind.

I made this decision for one reason and one reason only: I love my family.

They do a great job at the basket. They`re a team that doesn`t give up points in the paint, and it`s tough to get anything to the rim, and we didn`t have a lot of guys making (outside) shots.

Shaquille obviously looked rusty offensively. But he looked very good on the defensive glass, and he was more active defensively than he was for big parts of last year.

I was pleased with our effort.

I`ll help out any way I can after I spend some time with my family.

We`ll see if we can make some adjustments, but we`re certainly not going to panic.

I emerged from summer league feeling that I would have no trouble, no problem playing Wayne Simien. And I think that`s the first step for any player. ... Can a coach put you in the game and feel OK about it? I think he has the skills and the smarts and the toughness where you would have no problem.

He`s a very, very good passer and he can shoot the ball. He needs to knock down perimeter shots for us consistently. That`s obviously something that we`re looking for right now.