NET NOTES

If you were wondering, Alonzo Mourning feels fine. The 14-minute cameo against the Hornets was more a matter of what others did, not what Mourning didn’t or couldn’t do.

“You’ve got to talk to Byron [Scott] about that,” said Mourning, who has played as many as 20 minutes four times, but only once in the last seven games. “Don’t talk to me about how long he’s putting me in the games. As long as he puts me on the floor, I’m going to produce. I deal with whatever time he [gives] me.”

Mourning admits he still is not “where I want to be” physically after sitting an entire season in his fight against his kidney illness. “But I still feel like I’ve got something to offer this team. When I get out there on the court, I try to do that.”

And Tuesday night, he said, “I felt great.”

Scott acknowledges Mourning, averaging 18.1 minutes overall, will and should be getting more time, but in recent games, he liked the hand he was playing, sometimes with Jason Collins, sometimes with Aaron Williams.

“Yeah, I could probably use him a little bit more,” said Scott, who said Tuesday was “pretty much sticking with the guys who were going pretty good at the time . . . [and] sometimes I just think Zo’s getting a little tired.”

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Big day for Lucious Harris today. Scott forecasts a “training camp” practice, one that could determine where Harris is with his back injury. Harris has been on the IL since season’s start but Nets hope he returns during upcoming trip west.

“I don’t know if it’s necessarily the first game of the road trip” that Harris returns and Saturday at home against Toronto is a long shot but not impossible, Scott said.