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My understanding here is that the sun spot cycle is not moving into some lesser activity trough, but that the cycle is just taking about 2 months longer than usual to return to the upswing in activity.

I don't think anyone can say right now

The NASA predictions were that this sunspot cycle (#24) which should have began in 2007 was going to produce a high number of sunspots like the solar cycles we've seen in the past 50 years, but the next one (#25 - starting in ~2018) was going to be very weak with more weak cycles following that.

But the fact that this sunspot cycle (#24) is "off to a very slow start" is making some people wonder if NASA predictions were off and if it is actually this cycle (#24) that is going to be the 1st of a series of very weak sunspot cycles.