Just listening to the Nets talk about their more free-flowing offense on the court and more positive attitude on the end of the bench, it sounds like they’re throwing praise at interim Tony Brown, while throwing shade at fired coach Lionel Hollins.

Aside from the losing, sources tell The Post Hollins had angered the Nets’ Russian brain trust by throwing his players under the proverbial bus, and the often prickly coach didn’t create a positive environment around the team.

Asked about reversing their season-long late-game woes with Wednesday’s fourth-quarter rally against the rival Knicks, Thaddeus Young pointed to the coaching switch.

“When your coach is not panicking and he’s staying positive and he’s continued to motivate us, it’s huge for us as far as an energy standpoint,” Young said. “It makes us want to continue to go out there and continue to play, and it doesn’t keep us thinking about what’s happening before as much.

“With us, I think our tendencies before [were] we were harping on the fact that we were going up leads and harping on the fact that we have some plays where we turned the ball over. But Tony’s mentality is: ‘Forget what happened before this, and let’s try to push and try to win this game.’ That’s huge for us as a team. It says a lot that he believes in us, that he wants us to compete, he believes that we can continue to win the game at any point.”

Guard Shane Larkin pointed to a more fun, less-stressful atmosphere.

“It’s been good. [Brown has] freed everybody up to go play basketball,” Larkin said. “It’s not a lot of stress out there, just go try to have fun, play hard, play with energy. Just go play, that’s what he’s preaching, so that’s what we’re doing.

“We were in a little funk. The season hasn’t gone how anybody on the team has wanted it to go.

“He’s just being real positive about everything. Let’s turn a new page. That chapter is done, let’s start a new page, start off trying to get wins playing together, playing with a lot of intensity on the defensive end, sharing the ball playing free. Just go have fun. It’s basketball, it’s a game. Just go have fun, play, see what happens.’’

Brown has given Larkin and Donald Sloan more freedom on the court. Instead of having to look over to Brown for him to call one of 30 or 40 plays, they’ve been able to call one of six or seven sets on the fly. Brown likened it to a quarterback with a cheat sheet of plays on his wristband, and Larkin said it’s a huge help.

“Yes, for sure. You’re out there on the court, so you’ve got a feel for how the game is going, who’s got it going,’’ Larkin said. “It definitely helps when you can just go out there and call a set, and we can get a shot out of the set instead of just pound this guy the ball and make him get a bucket for us. It’s definitely better.”

Multiple sources said the Nets are encouraged by the interest in both general manager and head-coaching jobs, but the search is just getting started.

On Monday, TNT analyst/NBA.com writer David Aldridge mentioned ex-Atlanta GM Danny Ferry, Kentucky coach John Calipari, ex-Detroit GM Joe Dumars, and former Phoenix and Toronto GM Bryan Colangelo as possibilities. Spurs architect R.C. Buford would be a wise choice, albeit tough to lure.

A source told The Post that Ferry — who left the Hawks under heat after his racially insensitive comments in 2014 about Luol Deng — isn’t the likeliest candidate, and no decisions are imminent. Colangelo, 50, is said to be willing to return after a few years away from the league and could be the best choice after building a 27-win Raptors team into a division winner.