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Nets’ Douglas-Roberts: Times are tough

If you think watching the Nets’ historically bad season is tough, imagine having to live through it; loss after loss, blowout after embarrassing blowout.

Even though they used words like “tough,” “torture” and “insane” yesterday to describe their 3-40 misery, Chris Douglas-Roberts cautioned things could get worse.

Cheery thought, that.

“This is torture, man. It’s torture when you think about it. It’s really — it’s bad. It’s bad, man,” said Douglas-Roberts, who acknowledged the despair of losing had affected his game.

Douglas-Roberts has been working with Long Island clinician Jerry Powell, and after an invisible one-shot performance in Utah, he came in on Monday’s off-day for hours of extra work.

“That last road trip felt like [we hit rock bottom]. It definitely did, because we’re not even competitive now. But we’ll see. It could get worse.”

Sure. They could lose them all. And the way they’re rapidly regressing, is that so outlandish a possibility?

If they lose tonight to the Clippers, the Nets will be the first team in history to go 3-41, and the 76ers’ all-time record for futility (9-73) in 1972-73 will be that much closer.

“Somebody asks me about that every day, so it is in the back of my mind or the front of my mind every day,” said GM/interim coach Kiki Vandeweghe, who admitted he’s concerned about the morale.

“I’m concerned about everything; part of the job is to be concerned about everything. But, yeah, when I walked in here to do the coaching, morale was not that great and we’ve won a few games, but recently we haven’t. [But] guys continue to work hard.”

Yes, they’ve won a few, 3-22 under Vandeweghe compared to 0-18 under the fired Lawrence Frank and two-game interim coach Tom Barrise. They were blown out by 20 just once under his predecessors, but an NBA-high eight times under Vandeweghe, including three such routes on their four-game road trip that saw them outscored by 100. No, that’s not a misprint; it was that bad.

“The attitude is good, we had a good, solid practice; but living this day-to-day is tough,” Vandeweghe said.

⇒Courtney Lee, questionable with an aching wisdom tooth, told his hometown radio station, “It’s the only thing we can do to keep from going insane.”

Devin Harris (sprained wrist) is out, while Jarvis Hayes is questionable with a stomach virus.

Douglas-Roberts and Terrence Williams teamed up with EmblemHealth for an event at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, reading Curious George Goes To School and doling out gifts to kids.

brian.lewis@nypost.com