I’ve seen this dance before.

The Hawks opened up the game with a hot start that highlighted the stylistic differences between these two teams: off-ball movement and spacing by Atlanta was feebly countered by Brooklyn’s shot creators, who looked to create mismatches and find open teammates off double-teams. The Nets came back in a series of runs against Atlanta’s second unit, with one bench player (Jarrett Jack in Games 1 and 2, Alan Anderson Wednesday night) providing a surprise spark.

The Nets then got it close enough in the fourth quarter to ensure that you’d be watching through the final buzzer. Maybe Joe Johnson hit two big three-pointers after airballing a wide-open one. Maybe Jarrett Jack, perhaps the worst above-the-corners three-point shooter in the league, hits two from the left wing in a fourth-quarter run in which he scored 12 consecutive Nets points.

But in Atlanta, against the 60-win, equal-opportunity Atlanta Hawks, one or two mistakes don the stretch — whether it be a poor pass into the beak of the Hawks defense or an open lane for Jeff Teague to swoop down for a layup — proved too costly to overcome. This was C+ game when they needed an A to pull it off.

We put up the odds earlier: the Nets face a 91.9 percent chance of elimination, given the NBA’s history of best-of-seven series. They’re long odds, which to some degree, they’ve faced all along.

But I’m done counting them out. Because, I mean: do you think this series is over?