'Human part of job is really tough' - Rivers on serious Lillard injury - video Dailymotion

Bucks' coach Doc Rivers says the serious-looking injury sustained by Damian Lillard is really tough to take

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00:00You know, this is a tough one, honestly.

00:03Blood clot, followed by this.

00:08You know, it's just tough.

00:12You know, so that's why you have teammates and family, you know, around them.

00:19He's just such a great freaking dude, like, on a basketball level,

00:25but more important, like, as a teammate and a father and all that stuff.

00:30I've seen injuries, like, deflate teams, but tonight, that one hurt.

00:36I thought our guys tried, but it was tough.

00:38You know, all of them are in there at halftime, you know, in the training room.

00:43You know, really tough to talk to a team, you know, after that.

00:47So my job over the next, you know, 40 hours or whatever we have is to get us upright again,

00:54try to win one game in Indiana, and get it back here.

01:00But my brain right now is right where the same place that the players are,

01:04and that's thinking about Dane.

01:06That's just a human part of this job that's really no fun.

01:10It really isn't.

01:11I don't have to.

01:11I don't have to do that.

01:25human part of this job