The Nets' underlying goal this preseason was to make it to the regular season healthy.

Nets starters made it safely, although they seemed listless in the Nets' 102-91 loss to the Detroit Pistons tonight to finish the preseason at 4-4. The night was marred when Brian Scalabrine, the 6-foot-9, second- round draft pick, broke a bone in his right foot 8 minutes 47 seconds into the second quarter. Scalabrine will miss two to three months with a fracture in his right metatarsal, said Rod Thorn, the Nets' president.

Scalabrine, out of Southern California, had missed almost all of the preseason with a deep bruise in his right foot, the same place he felt a pop tonight while simply dribbling upcourt uncontested at Continental Arena.