Avery Johnson Best Quotations

He knows it's not permanent. Stack has been one of our best hustle players. He's wrapped up in that mode of being an offensive player. Sometimes you don't notice the hustle plays.

He's definitely the best point guard in the history of the Spurs franchise.

I thought this was our best performance of the series.

I thought this was our best performance of the series. We talked about playing tough, hard-nosed defense tonight to try and close this series out.

That's the key, play at our tempo. We don't play as fast as we used to, but we're at our best when we get out in transition. That's what we want to do when we get a chance. That's when we feel pretty comfortable.

We feel adding Doug Christie to our team is giving us the best chance to win a championship.

Devin Harris probably had his best day, really, of the preseason, including practices.

This is the best he's looked in the last couple of days. Hopefully, we can get in a good practice in Utah, and then we'll see how he looks.

This isn't going to be an easy series for anybody. Memphis isn't going to back down from anybody. They haven't played their best game.

These two teams have a lot of pride. Memphis doesn't back down from anybody, and it has not played its best game yet.

As we move forward, and especially in the playoffs, he's going to get their best defender. It'll be good to see if we've made some progress there.

We just had to make some points about it. We've got to play our best basketball to win Game 1.