After Wednesday’s loss in Chicago, the Brooklyn Nets face the New Orleans Pelicans and will try to avoid a losing skid.

“We’re going to take this one on the chin like men and get ready for the rest of the games going forward,” Nets guard Kyrie Irving said.

“We’ll take it. That’s part of basketball,” added coach Jacque Vaughn. “That’s what I told the group. That’s the great thing about this thing: We’ve shown how to respond after a win, and we just kept winning. Now how do we respond after a loss?

“That’s why you don’t get too high or too low after this thing and get ready to play the next game.”