Takeaways from a grim, winless stretch of Brooklyn Nets basketball

“I know this is kind of like a rebuild situation, but we’ve got to go in there like we want to win regardless of what the front office is expecting.”

An honest Ben Simmons hit the nail on the head after the Brooklyn Nets’ 112-111 OT loss on Sunday night to the Utah Jazz, their fifth in a row. The only thing he got wrong is that this isn’t “kind of like” a rebuild situation.

But Simmons’ words — as reported by Brian Lewis of The New York Post — were as revealing as any Net has offered this season. (He is on a max contract, after all.)

The players know good and well that their front office wants them, no, expects them to lose games. That’s why Brooklyn has been without 8-10 players for each game…