When the Celtics had a very difficult schedule to start the year(tons of road games, an early season west coast trip of 5 games in 9 days in 5 states and three different time zones, one of the hardest strength of schedules in the league) and struggled through slumps and players not fitting into their roles, almost everyone complained. The sky was falling.
Now we enter an easier part of the schedule, get the offensive synergy going, find everyone a roll, have a bunch of players come out of their slumps, go on a winning streak, beat scrub teams convincingly even with a slew of injuries and yet, we should discount all those positives just because it's an easier schedule? But the really hard schedule at the beginning of the year didn't contribute to how the team played?
Sounds hypocritical to me. You can only play the schedule they give you. You're going to have to make the best out of both the easy and tough schedules. You can't complain when the team drops some games because of a hard schedule and then discount wins when the schedule loosens up.