Nets have shot at the finish their coach has been pressing for

Jarrett AllenApril basketball should be treated with the same healthy skepticism as September baseball, and taken with a grain of salt. But the Nets’ slow, inexorable improvement is starting to show.

Despite another losing season, the Nets are 4-2 in their past six and 6-5 in their past 11. With just two games left — including’s Monday home finale against Chicago — this is the progress coach Kenny Atkinson wanted to see to close to this season and hopefully carry over into next.

“It just boosts our confidence,” Atkinson said. “There was a lot of doubt when we were losing those close games. I know [the media] talked about it with them, and I read it in the press, you can feel it. So to be able…