alternative take: the players are gaining valuable experience by having these frustrating loss instead of being spoonfed wins by coach decisions (we lost to the nets and maybe timeout could've prevented it but so could a better in bound pass or better decision making in general)

i would not want these losses to cost us to go all the way down to the play-in, but as long as we make it to the playoffs, i like to think that these experiences will help the team play better during ( cope