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The Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers addresses the media after the Clippers’ 105-111 Game 5 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Friday night.

One of the NBA’s highest-paid strategists credits the Nuggets for their second-half comeback as “they played tough”.

Rivers says the Clippers’ players need to have a short memory and get focused on Game 6 and acknowledges the team’s struggles with Kawhi Leonard off the floor in the fourth quarter: