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NBA

Moment of truth as Pierce comes alive for Nets

Barclays Center sounded like the Izod Center.

Nearly one half had passed and home-court advantage seemed like little advantage for the Nets in their first home playoff game of the year, as the Brooklyn crowd seemed to confuse the postseason with the preseason.

The Nets could assume no fault for the far too quiet arena. Deron Williams was as aggressive as he has been in his career. Joe Johnson’s shot was as smooth as ever. Their playoff experience was evident — as was the crowd’s.

After years of playing in one of the best basketball environments, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett would not accept the silence.

With the Nets tied at 41 with the Raptors late in the first half of Game 3 of their first round series, Pierce scored four straight points — as part of a 10-0 run — which included a crossover of Tyler Hansbrough that led to an emphatic dunk that awoke the dormant crowd and ignited a building-wide “U-S-A!” chant.

The Nets never trailed again — winning 102-98 on Friday night — with the team’s most playoff-savvy players showing the crowd what the playoffs need to sound, and feel, like.

“Hopefully the next game it’ll get a lot better from the start,” said Pierce, who finished with 18 points and five rebounds. “We want to come out from the jump, from the beginning and have them in the game. It shouldn’t take a big play for us. We want them in it, we want them behind us. It was a great crowd tonight.”

Garnett made it greater. On a night when he struggled, fouling out after just over 16 minutes of action and finishing with two points, the big man still had an impact.

Shortly after Pierce’s dunk, Garnett dove on a ball in the Raptors’ backcourt, gaining the possession and screaming to the crowd, popping his jersey, reminding everyone of the new team he leads.

“That possession just showed that no matter how young you are, to get on the floor or how tall you are, at 7-feet, every possession is big for him,” coach Jason Kidd said. “For him to get down and show how important it is to get the 50-50 ball was big.”

Pierce appeared to break the game open in the third quarter, scoring eight points on 3-of-4 shooting — after going 2-of-11 in Game 2 — while continually waving for the crowd to get louder and louder, nodding his head with approval: This was the playoffs.

But despite holding a 15-point lead with five minutes left, the Nets lead was trimmed to two after they missed four free throws in the final minute. Then, Toronto fouled the wrong guy — a former NBA Finals MVP.

Pierce, who had not attempted a shot in the fourth quarter, hit both free throws with 14.6 seconds left, giving the Nets a four-point lead.

“We understand they’ve been here before, they’ve won a ring,” Shaun Livingston said of the former Celtics’ impact. “They understand what to expect and they understand all the little things to get the guys going. … Playoff games are about details. The smallest things can win games.”