They're back. The Nets. The good Nets, that is. The Jugger-Nets of the season's first two games. Forget what happened in Detroit. That was like the bad Captain Kirk of Star Trek.

And perhaps the biggest transformation was embodied by Keith Van Horn.

Obviously picking up on the message from coach Byron Scott after a dismal effort that was putrid on not just one but two ends of the court 24 hours before, the Nets last night at the Meadowlands were a different team.