Austin Rivers/Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Clippers, NBA.com

Clippers guard Austin Rivers on Friday returned to New Orleans to help his new team take on his old team and his old team prevailed 108-103. Afterward, Rivers’ father – Clippers coach Doc Rivers – said the team did not have “great focus.” The younger Rivers was queried as to why.

“I don’t know,” Austin Rivers said. “All I know is we can’t dwell thinking about it. If you start doing that, that’s how you start messing with, whatever. We had won six in a row, it was a tough loss. We weren’t focused, we gave them that win. We were supposed to take that from them, we are supposed to come in and beat a team like that. They played well, our focus wasn’t there 100 percent. But let’s get another six or seven in a row; let’s keep rolling.”

Austin Rivers scored 10 points on 4 of 8 shooting off the bench Friday.