One of the Nets’ biggest obstacles this season has been themselves.
Losers of their past five games and 12 of their past 14, the Nets are free-falling into the second half of the NBA season. But for a team that looks drastically different from last season, it has been an ongoing struggle to develop familiarity and chemistry — especially amid a plethora of injuries and lack of consistency in the rotation.
“Stuff like that can either break you or it can make you,” Wilson Chandler said following practice on Friday.
From the beginning, coach Kenny Atkinson and the Nets knew it was going to be a challenge to integrate so many new faces into the team.