A win is better than a loss. But more than that, it is not how you start the game but how you finish it.
The goal of any competition is to have fun and enjoy the competition whether you win or lose. But you still want to win. In 2014-15, the Pistons did not win as much as they would have liked. But as the season went on, their losses were not so bad.
The final score of any basketball game does not tell the whole story of the game. A team could be winning by 22 points with 11 minutes to go in the game, go to the bench players, and end up winning the game by only seven.