The Brooklyn Nets’ superstar trio of Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving, making just under $114 million combined this season, had only played eight games together this season prior to Tuesday’s first round Game 2 against the Boston Celtics. With the help of $75 million man Joe Harris, Brooklyn had by far its best performance of the season in crushing Boston 130-108 to take a 2-0 series lead.

Harris broke Mirza Teletovic’s Nets franchise playoff record for made threes in a half with six, finishing with 25 points on 9-for-14 from the field and 7-for 10 from three.

“When Joe get its going like that, that unlocks our whole team,” Durant said.

It was his unconscious scoring from three that led the delivery of the KO punch to Boston in the first quarter. He had 16 in the first, outscoring Boston as the second-seeded Nets opened an early 29-13 advantage they’d never look back from.

“We were just the aggressors early on, and we put a lot of pressure on them,” Harris said. “Those guys were looking for me early on after I got the first couple to go.”

Once Harris hit his first couple of threes, his superstar teammates kept feeding him during that historic first half.

“Joe had it going tonight, and we all knew that,” Harden said. “And then me, KD and Kai just chipped in where we needed to.”

Durant scored a game-high 26 points on 8-of-12 shooting to go with eight rebounds and five assists. After shooting 52% during the first half and 11-of-21 from three, Brooklyn finished shooting 52.3% and 17-for-38 from distance. After not scoring in the first quarter, Harden finished with 20 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Kyrie Irving had 15 and Blake Griffin had 11.

After a disappointing Game 1, Kemba Walker started strong with a nine-point first quarter but quickly and quietly faded away, finishing with 17 points and seven assists on 5-of-11 shooting. More worrisome and dispiriting for the Celtics has been Jayson Tatum’s play.

Through six quarters of this series, Jayson Tatum missed 22 of his 30 field goal attempts. Part of this could be a groin injury he sustained during Saturday’s Game 1 Celtics loss, as TNT’s Jared Greenberg reported during Tuesday’s broadcast. He finished with nine points on 3-for-12 shooting and left the game for good late in the third quarter after being poked in the eye.

“Obviously, he is uncomfortable right now,” Boston head coach Brad Stevens said, adding that his eye is still red and swollen.

Part of Tatum’s struggles could be due to Durant’s defense on him during the first two games.

“His length, athleticism, he poses a lot of problems defensively,” Harris said. “And when he’s locked in, engaged, he can be an unbelievable defender.”

Boston shot decently from three, hitting 12-of-34, but shot 42.4% overall. Marcus Smart led the Celtics in scoring with 19, with Evan Fournier scoring 16 and Tristan Thompson chipping in 15.

“Right after we found out that Boston won the play-in, we started getting reps in on what to do on the defensive side of the ball,” Durant said. “So everybody here is capable of guarding one-on-one and helping each other but we needed to actually get some reps in in practice in order for us, our bodies to go through it and mentally to kind of see what we wanted to do.”

The Nets shared the ball as well as they’ve had all season, dishing out 31 assists in the win. It was their second-highest total of the season, trailing only the 35 they had in a loss to Charlotte on Dec. 27, their 3rd regular season game.

“Whenever the ball moves, we’re very difficult to defend,” said Nets head coach Steve Nash. “We can score in isolation, but the more the ball moves, we knock the first domino down and the other team’s chasing, we’re excellent in those situations. We want to try to make that more of a habit for us. Tonight was a good indicator of where we can go with that.”

Brooklyn will travel to Boston and take two days off before Friday’s Game 3, but it’ll be hard to top their performance against the Celtics on this night.