"A truly frightening, bone-chilling development seeped last night through the Prudential Center, where 14,319 utterly unsuspecting souls watched the Nets get dismantled, 94-73, by the Raptors who were going without two of their top three scorers.

It was suggested the Nets were cocky, took the Raptors lightly and might have looked past this game. And so ended the Nets' two-game winning streak.

"I don't think we put as much emphasis on this game as we should have," admitted point guard Deron Williams (24 points, six assists), who saw two personal streaks snuffed — the Nets had been 5-0 when he scored at least 24 this season and he had never lost to the Raptors (he's now 14-1 against them). "After the two wins we just had and coming back home, this was a winnable ballgame, a game we should have been a little more ready for.""