Vince Carter scored a season-best 45 points to lead the Nets to a 99-86 win over the Boston Celtics.

``With these last six or seven games I am just trying to take it up one more notch,'' Carter said after the Nets won for the 11th time in 14 games. ``I am just trying to get everyone to focus in a little more. I am just trying to grab and pull everything out of each player to commit to these last couple of games. I think we are capable of being in the playoffs. If you get in you never know what can happen.''