Monk then tried to explain what this season has been like for the Lakers. “One step forward, one step back, one step forward, one step back,” he said. “Five steps back, a couple steps forward. Keep doing the same thing man and, yeah, man, we just got to do a better job, man, as a team to play together and not get down on ourself. We almost in every game, we almost in every single game and we just let a couple calls go the wrong way. We get down on ourselves, then we let it affect the defensive, then the defense affect our offense and it just trickle down from there man. But, yeah, we just gotta do a better job.”