NET NOTES

One of the world’s universally held beliefs: The East is dead meat against the West in the NBA Finals. The Nets don’t necessarily agree.

“The East is always going to be overlooked with the strength of the Western Conference. It’s a given. We’ve played that role before. There’s nothing we can do about that,” said Jason Kidd. “But we feel we have just as good a chance as anybody [to win a title].”

The Nets needed to land one final knockdown blow on Detroit before advancing to a second straight NBA Finals, but if they did their style is suited to a Western game.

“Our makeup is a West Coast team, we can play in a wide open style. We’d rather play that way than any other way so it plays to one of our strengths,” Kidd said.

If the Nets advance, coach Byron Scott expects to see the Spurs, though he’s not saying who he’d prefer. And that forecast is strengthened by the injury to Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas.

“I thought they were the better team,” Scott said of he Spurs. “I thought they would beat Dallas in six games and I still think that. I think San Antonio is like we are right now over here. They’re on a mission and they’re playing great. We’re on a mission and we’re playing great basketball also.”

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Kenyon Martin can’t help it. He’s an emotional guy. And so when he exploded in Game 3 after a senses-numbing second quarter dunk, he eventually received a technical foul. “They said I was taunting their team,” said Martin. Would he do it again? “Yeah. Why not?”

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Kidd on the possibility of wife Joumana joining Monday Night Football: “That would be great. She has the ability. T.J. was born during a Monday night football game. She has the ability to do it, so it might happen.” . . . If the Nets do win the title, Richard Jefferson asked the question: “If you have a parade, where does it go to?” Jefferson asked before being told the parking lot outside the arena. “In the parking lot? Only in Jersey. Only in Jersey.”