The shorthanded Nets caught a beating in Boston a week ago. But in Monday’s rematch, the whipping stick was in the other hands.

The Nets cruised to a 109-102 win before 16,247 at a raucous Barclays Center that was more lopsided than the score indicated. And with free-agent-to-be Kyrie Irving watching from the Celtics’ bench, D’Angelo Russell put on a master class that showed he can be the franchise point guard the Nets need.

“You’ve got to respect us. Teams — I can’t speak for them — but I feel like aren’t respecting the Brooklyn Nets. But we’re coming in with our hardhats on every night home or away, trying to make teams feel us,” said Russell, who said he “for sure” should be an All-Star.

It was certainly an All-Star performance.

Russell had 34 points, seven assists and five rebounds to help snap a ten-game skid against Boston (25-18). He finished 7-of-13 from deep and scored 18 points in the third quarter alone, where the Nets closed on a 29-7 run to blow the game open.

And there were other contributors. Rodions Kurucs had 19 points, Jarrett Allen 19 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks. Spencer Dinwiddie beating the shot clock with a 36-footer — his foot on the halfcourt logo — showed what kind of night it was.

“It’s no longer that we’re just a team that plays hard, but we’re a team that plays hard and can win against [a good] team,” Allen said. “They’re Top 5 in the Eastern Conference, and Top 5 is where we want to end up being. We want to be one of those top teams.”

The Nets (22-23) are inching closer, their 14-5 mark since Dec. 7 the second-best in the NBA. They’re seventh in the East, just a game behind sixth-seeded Miami.

This was a far cry from a week earlier, when they’d played without not only Caris LeVert, Allen Crabbe and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, but Joe Harris (ankle) and DeMarre Carroll (knee), too. But on Monday, Harris had 13 points and Carroll a career-high 14 boards.

And the Nets’ defense — leaky in even their big wins — held the Celtics to 40.7 percent shooting and 11-of-36 from deep, while hammering them 55-41 on the glass.

“We learned a lot from the last game,” Kurucs said. “This game we played harder and tougher. We’re at home, we had to show them it’s our home.”

The Nets were clinging to a tenuous 61-59 lead after Al Horford’s hook shot with 7:10 left in the third. But that’s when the Nets ran off a 15-0 run, harassing the Celtics into missing all five of their shots and hitting all five of their own. Red-hot, Russell went 3-for-3 from deep in that run. He even had a 3-pointer wiped out by an offensive foul, and came right back and drilled another.

The run reached 22-2, with Russell’s fadeaway pushing the cushion to 83-61. It eventually swelled to 27 before the Celtics made a late run. Jayson Tatum (34 points) hit a corner 3 to cut it to 104-93 with 3:57 left, and Jaylen Brown’s finger roll made it 105-98 with 1:30 to play.

But the Nets held on for a needed win with a road date at Houston and reigning MVP James Harden looming Wednesday.

“Listen, these guys think they can do something special,” coach Kenny Atkinson said, “and so far we’re making strides.”