"If you want someone to give you 30 points, complete with off-the-dribble jumpers, look elsewhere. But, as Nets coach Avery Johnson said, if you're headed for a bar fight — or need some rough interior play — Shelden Williams should be on speed dial.

"The rougher the game is, the more we can count on him," Johnson said of Candace Parker's husband, who brings a lunch pail mentality to every game.

"That's been my game since Day 1," said the 6-foot-9 Williams, the No. 5 overall pick in 2006 who was an emergency fill-in starting center for Mehmet Okur (back) Friday at Cleveland and likely will do so again against the Raptors in Newark tonight."