We all knew that we were entering the easiest part of the schedule, and we needed it at 10-10. My fear was that the malaise had set so deep that even against these teams we would find a way to lose games, given that the majority of the games we lost during that 10-10 stretch were against .500 and under teams. That told me it was an effort and mental thing. That's why these games were banana skins for me.
But if we were to make any ground on the likes of TO, MIL, PHI we would have to beat these teams and so far we have done that. Much bigger tests lie ahead and we've seen lapses like the first half against Washington when they tossed up bad threes and didn't move the ball and run back in transition. So not quite back in business yet but we're getting there. Each game is a step in the right direction. We want to be peaking in April.
We're still a work in progress. We won't win every game because there will be nights we shoot like we did against Detroit. We'll have some bad shooting games like we did tonight and where we looked tired and labored. But overall our trajectory is trending upwards and we're in a solid position. When you have Morris, Hayward, Tatum, Brown and Rozier shoot 0-17 from 3 you will find it hard to win games. We want to build up progressively and do the right things, make the right passes, take the right shots, execute properly so that come April we are humming along.