SAN FRANCISCO — The NBA schedule — play, recover, play, recover — leaves little time for practice. Or in the last-place Nets’ case, little time to work on the fundamentals and principles they so desperately need.
That changes this week. Brooklyn will have its longest stretch between games all season, enjoying a day off in the Bay Area on Sunday and then coming back with two lengthy practices Monday and Tuesday before trying to break an NBA-long 16-game losing skid Wednesday just up the road in Sacramento.
“It’s really big,’’ said Jeremy Lin, now two games into his return after missing 26 straight games with a hamstring injury.