<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Beno Udrih made sure Sunday that his 82-year-old grandfather left the SBC Center happy. With Tony Parker in foul trouble, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich turned to the rookie guard from Slovenia with 7:26 left in the game. A 9-2 Pistons' run had trimmed the Spurs' 16-point lead to 10, but Udrih provided a steady hand at the point as the Spurs used a 16-4 spurt to grab a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals. "I thought he got stronger and a little bit more confident as he went along," Popovich said. "At the seven-, at the six-, at the five-minute mark, we're thinking we're getting Tony back. But the (lead) went back up to 15 and we thought this was a great opportunity to give (Udrih) some minutes and let him continue to play." Until Parker picked up his fifth foul, Udrih's biggest challenge of the NBA Finals was to help convince his maternal grandfather to fly from Slovenia to San Antonio for the championship series. "He was flying for the first time in his life and wasn't sure he wanted to get on the plane," Udrih said. "We all tried to convince him to go. He finally said yes, but then 50 minutes before the departure to the airport, he said, 'No, no. I don't want to go. Leave me home. "That's when my dad just said, 'Hey, get up, put your clothes on and let's go to San Antonio.'" </div> Source
