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"It's hard because we've lost games in several different ways," Hawks point guard Anthony Johnson said. "It's hard to put our finger on one thing that we're not doing. That being said, we're one game out of .500 and we've been in this situation before. We're just one game away from being back on top and the locker room being in good spirits again."

"Part of the problem is we lose a few games and we sort of ... the swagger is gone," Josh Childress said. "In that stretch where we won five in a row, we'd just buckle down late in games and take care of the business at hand. So to me it's really a mental thing. It's a matter of coming out every night and taking care of our business."

But even Woodson refuses to get too wrapped up in the current slide. He made it a point to remind his team they're still very much in the mix in terms of where they want to be in the conference playoff chase.

"I agree with coach," Josh Smith said. "We're still in the playoff hunt. We're inches away from figuring this whole thing out. And we will. We'll find a solution and get back to winning."