It wasn’t Brooklyn’s most lopsided loss of the season, but Trae Young made sure it was arguably their most embarrassing.
The Nets let Young turn the game into an AND1 mixtape and make them into his own personal foils.
They showed no fight and got routed 133-109 before a sellout crowd of 17,926 at Barclays Center.
It was their penultimate home game of the regular season, but the Nets (26-54) looked like they were already thinking about the offseason.
“Yeah, we were not ready to play,” Jordi Fernández said. “The coaches did a great job preparing and explaining gameplan, the players (Wednesday) had a great day. So it’s on me.
“I didn’t get them ready to play. …You see the first quarter 33-14 is because the team was not connected, physically ready, mentally ready. And that’s on me. We have to do better. It’s one of the worst games we’ve played this season.
“You make 20 3s and you don’t even have a chance to win the game, which blows my mind. That tells you how bad everything else is.”
From that first quarter it just got worse. They trailed by 32, after ex-Net Caris Levert’s free throw made it 99-67 with 1:29 left in the third.
Zaccharie Risacher — the top overall pick last June — had a career-high 38 points for Atlanta (38-42).
But it was really Young that showed the Nets up with 24 points and 12 assists, several of the spectacular variety.
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He went around the world to send Tyson Etienne falling to the ground and finished with a teardrop to make it 66-43 with 53 seconds left in the first half.
Then after a Nets turnover he went through the legs and lobbed to Risacher for an alley oop dunk to pad it to 82-53 just three minutes into second.
“Nobody wants to be in that situation, in that position. We have to come out and fight,” Drew Timme told the Post.
He had 13 points and career-highs of 11 boards and six assists. He’s the only rookie this season with a 10/10/5 game off the bench.
“That was just unacceptable. We just didn’t come out with the right energy right from the jump…It’s not about winning and losing, it’s about how you won or lost.”
Jalen Wilson led Brooklyn with a season-high 20 points, while Tosan Evbuomwan added 18 and Etienne 16.
Cam Johnson, D’Angelo Russell and Day’Ron Sharpe will not be traveling for the tail end of this back-to-back Friday in Minnesota.
Fernandez wouldn’t be pinned down, but the trio seem unlikely to play again this season.