Simple Local Avatar Plugin

I think that Im very close to achieve my goal..
I have this function on my themes but I need a help to find the right way to call simple local avatar function so it will show the local avatar image from simple local avatar pugin instead wordpress gravatar?

$first_img = get_avatar( $post->post_author );

Is there anyone can help?

function get_post_image() {
  global $post, $posts;
  $first_img = '';
  ob_start();
  ob_end_clean();
  $output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=['"]([^'"]+)['"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
  $first_img = $matches [1] [0];

  if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
    $first_img = get_avatar( $post->post_author );
  }
  return $first_img;
}