As easy as it was supposed to be.

The Knicks handled their business against the tanking Nets, pummeling their outer-borough foe 134-98 behind a balanced attack in a wire-to-wire conquest.

Karl-Anthony Towns led the scoring with 28 points for the Knicks (6-3), who won their fourth consecutive game while improving to 6-0 at home.

Just like last week against the terrible Wizards, Mike Brown’s squad didn’t play down to the competition.

Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks greets Landry Shamet and Mikal Bridges after scoring during the first half. Jason Szenes / New York Post

They squashed it.

Then the coach warned against complacency.

There’s still the bigger picture to worry about.

“Yeah, we’re talented. No matter what we do on the floor, we’re going to have the ability to score. But you take the regular season and you prepare yourself for the postseason,” Brown said. “If you just go out there and play the wrong way and win we still probably are going to score because we’re talented and we’ve got a lot of guys that can score. But it’s not going to help us later on.

“There are things that we have to continue to try to get better at in terms of our recognition and stuff like that out on the floor and our pace, get the ball in bounds on a make, not walking the ball up, getting right to our stuff. … There are a lot of little things. It’s hard to explain to you guys to a certain degree, but our guys know it. We’ll show it to them. But I do think we can be better. And that’s what we should all be striving for is to be better. There’s still a lot of room for us to grow.”

The latest learning experience/beatdown commenced with an 8-0 Knicks run after tipoff.

Then they led by 15 at the break, and 37 in the third quarter.

Since the second half of Wednesday’s win over the Timberwolves, the Knicks have scored 217 points in their past six quarters.

It’s running smoothly and the Knicks have been especially effective at home.

“All of us got pride,” Towns said. “We want to have the fans going home smiling and we want to protect home court and continue to give our fans something to cheer for.”

Josh Hart of the New York Knicks goes up for a shot during the first half.
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Towns also had 12 rebounds.

Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby each had 19 points in less than 30 minutes apiece.

Mitchell Robinson played just 16 minutes but his impact was noteworthy — the Knicks outscored Brooklyn by 40 points when the center was on the floor.

Once billed as a rivalry, this interborough contest has lost all its luster, carrying now the juice of a steamrolled grape.

Long gone are the antagonists Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Mikhail Prokhorov.

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They’ve been replaced in Brooklyn by a young nondescript squad built to tank by the Teflon Sean Marks.

The Nets (1-9) have sights on the first overall draft pick and are acting appropriately, handing the keys to defensive-averse players like Michael Porter Jr. and Cam Thomas (who was injured for Sunday’s game).

The Knicks had no problems finding open shots or burying them.

“Any time you get wins on the board,” Towns said, “it builds momentum.”

The only interesting matchup at MSG involved the head coaches, with Brooklyn’s Jordi Fernández facing his mentor Brown.

The two were together in Cleveland and Sacramento, with Fernández serving as the understudy.

“Great young coach,” Brown said of Fernández. “He’s got a young team, obviously, so they’ve gotta figure some things out. Any time I get a chance to see him, I always love to see him. But I want to kick his ass.”

Brown followed up with a drubbing.

The Knicks scored 77 points in the first half, with five players in double digits by the break.

Brown, who had three days off to prepare for the Nets, witnessed his ideal offense develop quickly against the sad-sack Nets.

Karl-Anthony Towns grabs a rebound during the Knicks’ Nov. 9 win over the Nets. Jason Szenes / New York Post

Brunson, who also had seven assists, carried the same message as his coach — against complacency.

The Knicks are in the middle of a seven-game home-stand, with three more remaining at MSG before their next road game.

“We don’t have expectations,” Brunson said. “We are just looking to get better every single day and with that being said, you can’t just say, ‘Hey, let’s get better at this.’ It’s about not being complacent and being more fluent in the stuff we run where everything is an instinct and we’re not thinking about what we’re doing. Everything’s a reaction and it comes seamless like that so we’re working towards that. So yeah, the ball’s going through the hoop, but we can be a lot better.”

Against the Nets, they were more than good enough.

Brunson and the rest of the starters were all pulled before the midway point of the fourth quarter.

An easy night’s work.