10:27 p.m. EST December 6, 2015 BROOKLYN — The Beatles came to Barclays Center on Sunday night.

For Brooklyn Nets coach Lionel Hollins, the opportunity to play a part in history — specifically, ending the Golden State Warriors' NBA-record undefeated start — looked to him like an opportunity.

"Yeah, I do think about it, because I thought we should have beaten them out there," Hollins said before Sunday night's 114-98 loss. "Of course you want to be a part of history, and upsetting somebody, and just shocking the world. That's what this business is all about. Going out there and making big noise."

The Warriors, however, are no stranger to raising decibel levels. A largely pro-Warriors crowd saw the putative road team race out to a 9-0 lead before the game was three minutes old, part of a 25-8 run to start the game. After one, it was 30-16.

"I am sure that we pointed that out to our guys in the film session, that this team definitely believes they can beat us," Warriors interim coach Luke Walton said. "And they got us last year, they almost got us this year. So that message is out there to the guys."

So on a night when Stephen Curry missed his first three free throws — shaking his head in disbelief shared by the entire arena — the Warriors still managed to dominate early and put this one away quickly after the Nets battled back to take a third-quarter lead.

The Warriors were buoyed by a local crowd teeming with blue and gold jerseys adorned with Curry's name. The cheers that followed, both during introductions and every time he touched the ball, easily drowned out Nets partisans.

"Steph knows he's going to be on the court for most of the game, and he's going to have the ball in his hands for most of the game," Walton said when it was over. "He can choose when he wants to get aggressive and take over, and when he wants to get his teammates involved. It's his job to decide out there, and he does a great job of judging both."

Curry rewarded teammates and fans alike, whether with a backdoor cut and finish from a Draymond Green feed in the first, or shaking off his defender and punctuating the rising sound of the crowd with a teardrop finish in the second. He finished with 28 points on 11-of-17 shooting. Green had 22 and Klay Thompson had 21.

The Nets, however, made a late run — throwing Thaddeus Young as the second man in a two-man trap of Curry on the perimeter — and cut the Warriors' lead to 57-54 at halftime, with Brook Lopez's turnaround giving the Nets a 58-57 lead early in the third quarter.

It stayed tight throughout the third. But Curry, who shot an uncharacteristically low six times in the first half, scored on an acrobatic baseline jumper and pull-up 3 on consecutive possessions to give the Warriors a 79-76 lead. Then came an alley-oop to Festus Ezeli, and an old-fashioned three-point play he completed as fans chanted "MVP!" A 3 at the end of the quarter by Curry, and suddenly the Warriors led 87-80.

"It was pretty purposeful," Curry said of his decision to take over. "Just see if I could get some room and impact the game. And things started to click."

From there, the Warriors' bench salted it away, putting the Warriors ahead 106-89 by the 6:58 mark.

The rout was on. History, at least for some Warriors opponent, would have to wait.