The only good thing for the Nets is they can move on to the next one pretty quickly, while this putrid performance still is fresh and still stings a little.

And if it’s not, coach Avery Johnson will show them film of the Nets missing a defensive assignment, not closing out on a shooter or just not moving their feet and letting the offensive player blow past them.

Since that happened on most of the possessions of the 124-92 beating the Pacers laid on the Nets, it could be the longest video session of the year. Shame on the Nets if they don’t come out and play with a different mentality and effort level Saturday in Milwaukee.

“Nobody likes to get their butts kicked like we did tonight so hopefully tomorrow we’ll come out with a lot more enthusiasm and a lot more to play for,” Devin Harris said.

It’s hard to imagine they would have less enthusiasm. This had to rank as their worst game of the season all the way around.

They’ve been blown out before, against the Heat and Celtics to name a couple of teams. You don’t want to accept that, but you can understand those teams having an easy time against the Nets. But the Indiana loss was worse than the one against the Bucks two weeks ago when the Nets lost by 22.

This is no disrespect to the Pacers, but they’re not a recent playoff team and didn’t have their fifth and sixth top scorers (Brandon Rush and Tyler Hansbrough). But they had more than enough with Mike Dunleavy, Jr, burying 6-of-7 from three en route to 30 points and Roy Hibbert and Danny Granger each hitting 7-of-12 from the field and scoring 20 and 18, respectively.

The Pacers just ran over the Nets, beating them in every way possible.

I’m not saying the Nets should have won this game. They’re a bad road team. But after winning four of their last five and knowing the Pacers would be desperate because they dropped six straight, the Nets should have shown a little more than they did.

The Pacers had three quarters of at least 32 points and two with 36 points. They shot 62.5 percent from the field, 54.5 percent from three, outrebounded the Nets by five, grabbed one more offensive board, had 10 more assists, five fewer turnovers and four more blocks.

Even with all their perimeter makes, the Pacers held a 58-24 edge in points in the paint, a staggering discrepancy for a team that doesn’t really have a top post player.

“Hopefully when we keep getting our faces smashed in we’ll get it,” Johnson said. “You get your face smashed in enough, sometime you’re going to have to learn to fight back.

“So it’s the growing pains of this year with our team and the one thing I know about our team we will get in our video session tomorrow and we’ll come out and strap them up again and give ourselves a chance to win hopefully much better than what we did tonight.”

The Nets can’t be much worse.

That’s why they need to remember this game and remember what happened against the Bucks two weeks ago.

The talk before the Indiana game and afterward was how the Nets need to play with a chip on their shoulders all the time. If they don’t have one after this, they may never.

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Coach’s Corner

“We just couldn’t get back and get our defense set. Their small lineup really hurt us and this was a desperate basketball team. They’d lost six in a row and they didn’t feel like they were playing that well. They’re a really good offensive team and tonight they made all of their shots.”

- Johnson on what went wrong

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Al Iannazzone covers the Nets for The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)