Kyle Lowry went into the locker room in the closing minutes of the first half while the Cleveland Cavaliers went on a run against his Toronto Raptors.

Lowry received criticism for the decision.

"Just to kind of decompress, get back there, kind of relax my body and relax my mind," Lowry said after the game. "And knowing that we had a chance to kind of make some things [happen], I wanted to get myself going and get my teammates going and get the team going. It was nothing more than just kind of to decompress, breathe and get back out."

Lowry has done it before in the past.

"I've done it plenty of times," he said. "It's just now with the magnitude of the situation, it shows a little bit more."

Lowry said he hasn't lost his confidence.

"I'm super confident," Lowry said. "I missed countless 3s that I thought were good and that I made last series. That's why I'm not down on myself. I'm not down — I'm really like, we've got a game on Saturday, and I know I'm going to be much more effective on Saturday. Simple as that."