BOSTON - Life is very different inside the walls of the Auerbach Center. While social media and talking heads fall over themselves to diagnose what’s plaguing the Boston Celtics, the team is calmly going about their business.

“No one in this building is losing their minds,” Brad Stevens told MassLive. “You recognize, and you look at the schedule sometimes and you can say ‘these are going to be real tough stretches.’”

Perhaps no one in the building understands the wild swings of a season better than Kemba Walker, who spent eight seasons full of real tough stretches in Charlotte.

“I’ve lost so many more than three games in a row throughout the course of my career,” Walker said. "Plenty of times, so this is nothing to me personally. It’s just about getting back on track at this point.”

Walker sees the Celtics issues as correctable slippage rather than some systemic issue.

“A lot of it has been because of us and how we’ve been playing, and we just haven’t been playing like ourselves," he said. "We just haven’t been playing like ourselves...and that’s playing with energy, playing unselfishly with each other, moving the basketball, just getting back to how we know how to play.”

This is the time of year when teams get prone to stretches like this. The Celtics have deviated from their high-energy style of play on both ends of the floor and reverted to a more ‘my turn, your turn’ kind of offense. That can work when guys are making shots, but when they’re missing, opponents can quickly turn them into big runs. They got away with it for a couple of games, but Walker could see what was coming.

“It caught up to us, especially when they went to Washington and lost to Washington,” Walker told MassLive. "We just didn’t have it. Our energy. We won those games solely off us just being better than those other teams. We kinda slipped into a bad habit over the course of these last four or five games of us just being kind of comfortable and just not playing to the full potential that we know we can play with.”

Walker won’t compare the talent on this team to his old ones, but he doesn’t have to. His best teams in Charlotte weren’t as good as the one he’s on now. The grind of the NBA is tough, but it’s worse when they result in losing streaks longer than three games. So Walker knows when teams are broken and when they’re just playing poorly.

“We are (25) and, what, 11? In January," Walker, who won 28 games over this first two full seasons in the league, said with a laugh. "We’re going to lose more games. We’re going to win more games. It’s OK.”

In a weird way, coming to Boston and having to answer seemingly laughable questions about a three-game skid is part of what he was looking for. He joined the Celtics, in part, because winning is part of the expectation. Still, he understands that no one is going 82-0, and he’s not going to overreact when things get tough.

“You know in the NBA there’s going to be some of this, and you just kinda have to stay the course,” Stevens said. "He gets that better than anybody. And he’s also really confident in the guys around him. He’s not a guy that you’re going to see a whole lot of panic from, or I don’t think he’s going to be doing jumping jacks either. I think he’s a pretty even-keeled guy.”

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