"It's almost like being even. We're one down," he said prior to Sunday's 107-96 defeat. "We'd like be 30 up or 31 up, but you are where you are. It's better to stay even from an even plateau than getting five down, or four down and trying to fight your way back. Especially if you look at the way the West is with playoff implications, you don't want to dig yourself too big of a hole."