One of the Nets’ biggest obstacles this season has been themselves.

Losers of their past five games and 12 of their past 14, the Nets are free-falling into the second half of the NBA season. But for a team that looks drastically different from last season, it has been an ongoing struggle to develop familiarity and chemistry — especially amid a plethora of injuries and lack of consistency in the rotation.

“Stuff like that can either break you or it can make you,” Wilson Chandler said following practice on Friday.

From the beginning, coach Kenny Atkinson and the Nets knew it was going to be a challenge to integrate so many new faces into the team. But after playing without Chandler (25-game PED suspension), losing David Nwaba (Achilles) for the season and battling the extended absences of Kyrie Irving (shoulder impingement) and Caris LeVert (thumb surgery), it has been impossible for the Nets to put a consistent product on the floor.

Atkinson said he feels the Nets are in good spirits despite the skid. He also thinks the Nets are learning how to be patient as the team becomes “more whole.”

“[It’s] not at all [difficult to trust each other],” Chandler said. “We’ve got a lot of guys that have been out and you can’t account for that, lot of guys still learning each other.

“I don’t think it’s a trust issue at all. I think it’s just more of a rhythm thing, more of a getting used to playing with each other.”

The Nets’ next seven games are against below-.500 teams. The Nets, who are currently 2.5 games ahead of the Pistons for the No. 8 playoff seed in the Eastern Conference, understand how much ground they have to make up heading into this stretch before the All-Star break.

However, with DeAndre Jordan (right middle finger dislocation) and Nic Claxton (left shoulder contusion) still listed as questionable to play Saturday night at Detroit, the Nets will have to continue battling roster inconsistencies.

“There’s no lightening up,” Atkinson said. “It’s all on us. I really think that. You look at both Sixers games, and we’re there. I think Detroit is going to be tough. The Knicks are playing better. I’m just as fearful of those games as I was the past five games.

“I know if we play to our capabilities, the healthier we get, the better we get, the results will start coming.”

The Nets’ first of two meetings with the Pistons in the span of four days will sandwich their fourth matchup of the season against the lowly Knicks, on Sunday at the Garden. But the Nets know where they stand in the league and what they’ll have to do to prove otherwise.

“It’s the NBA, so we can’t take those teams lightly even though they’re losing,” Chandler said. “We had a losing patch, too, so we can’t say we’re that much better than the next team. We got to go out and still play like we’re playing the Lakers, playing Philly, and play with that same intensity that we had those three quarters [against the Lakers on Thursday] and make a whole game.”