The pendulum was always going to swing back the other way. The streak of 19 wins in 24 games wasn’t sustainable, especially when the injuries hit. Regression was going to come. It does to even the best teams.
So this recent stretch of five losses in seven games isn’t a grave concern — if the Nets can prevent it from mushrooming. That’s the goal before the All-Star break, now that Allen Crabbe and Caris LeVert are back, to put an abrupt end to this downward trend and not cut into the positive momentum they have created for themselves.