To be fair the 3 of those 4 losses before the trade were against the Clippers, Heat, and the Nuggets on the road, the best of the best. After the trade we're struggling against lottery/mediocre teams, going 5-4 with losses against the Bucks, Mavs, Suns, Wizards. Big difference. They haven't even looked impressive in their wins lately besides the first Mavs game. Looked like crap at Orlando..which was a closely contested game until the end of the 4th..looked like ass against the Warriors..we're just lucky we caught them in free-fall.
I think opposing teams have learned that they have to get back on defense and prevent our fast break.
Sadly, I tend to agree with this. We don't have any interior presence to mix up our offense. When our offense stagnates, we should be dumping it inside instead of having Harden pull a Steve Francis.