The Milwaukee Bucks' bad stretch of games continued with a 119-101 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday. Not only was it the Bucks' third loss in a row and their fourth in five games, it was also the third straight game that the Bucks lost by double digits. 

Admittedly, Milwaukee faced a brutal stretch of opponents for their three losses. Facing the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves and Spurs all in a row is no easy task for any team, much less for a team that has been as inconsistent as the Bucks have been. 

Thankfully, the Bucks have three days off in between their next game, a matchup with the Atlanta Hawks, and what they do with those three days off will be crucial for adjusting their mentality and bouncing back from these brutal losses in a so far disappointing season.

"For us, we just need to come in with a good spirt, good attitude and effort and have a couple of good practice days," Kyle Kuzma said (via Bucks). "[We've] got a rest day tomorrow. Like I said, the league, you're always going to keep playing so you've got to have short-term memory."

Milwaukee's schedule certainly hasn't been forgiving, but Kuzma feels that physical fatigue isn't at the heart of the team's issues.

Rather, it's their unfocused and demoralized mindset that needs to be adjusted. Kuzma repeatedly celebrated the fact that, if nothing else, the NBA has the benefit of a long season. The Bucks have only just reached the halfway point of the season and while their record is a lackluster 17-24, there is plenty of basketball left in the season. 

The other side of that lengthy record is that it can feel like a grind if the team that has to face it is doing so with a fractured mentality.

The Bucks' season has been rife with frustrations, from their poor performance to the extended absence of star Giannis Antetokounmpo due to injury earlier in the season to the black cloud of Antetokounmpo's possible departure from the team after trade rumors have swirled around. 

All of these difficulties are why Kuzma feels like the Bucks need to have a short memory. Left unchecked, these frustrations can build and fester until a difficult stretch becomes a full on irreversible collapse and that's something the Bucks certainly want to avoid. 

In short, it's not the physical rest that the Bucks need the most, but the mental. 

"I think we need the short-term memory more than we need the rest day, for sure. Past two games... It's not the legs. I think it's more of our minds and our mentality and how we need to approach every game," Kuzma said.