It’s always hard to evaluate specific runs of form— good or bad— in the middle of the season. Once it’s over and you have hindsight to guide you, you have enough context to properly frame particular chapters in the story of a season. But when you’re in the thick of it, it’s so hard to judge.
Is a run of good results following a spell of bad ones the mark of a good team finally shaking off its bad mojo? Or was it a brief and fleeting mirage in an otherwise bad year with an otherwise bad team?