Jermaine O'Neal struggled through 21 minutes Tuesday night before succumbing to lower back pain, which he said was caused by recurring pain in his sprained left foot.

O'Neal left four minutes into the third quarter after a 1-of-9 shooting performance. He finished with two points and five rebounds.

"I just have to take some more time off to get this foot healed because it's not going the way we wanted it to go," O'Neal said.