Doc Rivers chats with Chris Paul during a recent game/Photo by John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News

Clippers coach Doc Rivers has said it a million times – he just wants his team to be itself. It was therefore no surprise Tuesday morning to hear what he said when a reporter asked him what kind of mind-set the Clippers will take into Game 2 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series against the Spurs on Wednesday night at 7:30 at Staples Center. The Clippers took Game 1 by a score of 107-92.

“It’s the same one,” Rivers said. “I mean, we’re not going to change our mind-set. We just have to play hard, we have to attack and we have to be us.”