There’s no secret about the Nets’ offensive success this season. They get it and go. But there’s no secret about what teams try to do to stop them.

“The scouting report on us is, ‘Try to take them out of their offense, be physical,’ ” said point guard Jason Kidd, noting that was the nutshell version of how the Heat dismantled the Nets Saturday. “We’ve got a lot of games to work on it. The thing for us is to understand what it takes to beat a team that can change our style. If a team is going to be physical, we have to play physical. We have to have that mentality.”

Teams start forging their playoff styles after the All-Star break. The Nets have shown they are a legit team. They’ve pushed the ball all the way to the top of the Eastern Conference. But now they can expect to see more styles similar to what awaits in the postseason, which usually produces games played at the speed of Gheorghe Muresan. Miami was the latest team to try to slow the Nets. And the latest to be successful, winning Saturday, 90-77.

“(Opponents) have realized that one of our goals is to get out and run, (so) a lot more teams are probably going to start sending two or three guys back instead of trying to crash the boards,” acknowledged Byron Scott. “They do that, we’ve got to continue to run anyway. We don’t run in and get something easy, then we run right into our offense and play from there. That’s why I think this offense is so good for us because if we don’t get a lot of transition points and we run our offense, you’ll still have a heckuva time guarding us in halfcourt sets.”

Miami wasn’t all that troubled, but Miami is starting to play like the Miami of past years, not the Miami of past months. Alonzo Mourning looks firm and fit again and so the Heat got up on the Nets and played as hard and tough as anyone has all season. Normally, the Nets have simply sprinted past teams. This time, it was hard sprinting through roadblocks and walls.

“We have to become more comfortable against that type of pressure,” offered center Todd MacCulloch. “Like coach said, the teams that have been successful, that’s kind of what they’ve done. We need to, I guess, probably apply more pressure in practice and get used to it. They were getting up on the ball and messing up our timing. Our offense is not geared on one guy, it’s a meshing of the whole system and they made it tough for us to run through it smoothly.”

And you can sort of figure that every team on the Nets’ schedule for the next, oh, 31 months, will study how Miami avenged two previous defeats to New Jersey this season.

“Teams are going to play us real aggressive and real physical,” Scott predicted. “In the beginning we didn’t come with the right frame of mind. We didn’t expect them to get up and pressure us like they did. They pretty much took a page from Philly and Toronto and a couple other teams that have been like that with us. Now we have to adjust. We have to understand teams are going to play us like that.”