Vince Carter has usually played well against the Toronto Raptors. Except for the last time he faced them.

Carter looks for a better outing against his former team while trying to help the New Jersey Nets avoid their fourth straight loss as the teams meet for the second time in four days on Monday night at Air Canada Centre.

Though Carter matched a season high with 39 points in a 113-104 loss at Chicago on Saturday, he'll try for a better effort than his last one against Toronto (10-13). Carter went 0-for-13 from the field and finished with three points in New Jersey's 101-79 home loss on Friday.

Carter is averaging 22.1 points this season, and 23.3 in 16 games versus Toronto where he spent the first six-plus years of his career, but was obviously upset with his performance on Friday enough to skip his postgame press conference.

He did bounce back a night later by going 11-for-22 from the field and making all 14 of his free-throw attempts.

"You knew he was going to come out and look to be aggressive and that's exactly what he did," Chicago's Ben Gordon said of Carter, who had 39 points on 17-of-28 shooting in the Nets' 129-127 overtime win at Toronto on Nov. 21.

While Carter was back to form, he was hoping to end his team's current skid a game earlier instead of on Monday.

"It wasn't about me. It was about us trying to get a win,'' Carter said. "The main thing was aggressiveness."

New Jersey (11-11) led by seven in the fourth quarter, but succumbed to a 12-2 Chicago run that ultimately ended the Nets' four-game road winning streak.

Devin Harris added 22 points with seven assists, but New Jersey shot 38.7 percent from the field and went 6-for-23 from 3-point range for the second consecutive game.

Harris, averaging a team-leading 24.1 points and 6.2 assists, had 14 versus the Raptors on Friday, but 30 on 10-for-18 shooting in last month's visit to Toronto.

Normally a strong team at home, the Raptors lost 99-91 to New Orleans on Sunday to fall to 5-6 there. Toronto had won its two previous games overall and is 2-4 under interim coach Jay Triano, who replaced the fired Sam Mitchell earlier this month.

"We just have to put something together, get some confidence at home," said Chris Bosh, who had 25 points, eight rebounds and six assists.

Bosh is averaging a team-leading 24.4 points and had 42 on 14-of-27 shooting against New Jersey at home earlier this season.

Against New Orleans, Jose Calderon added 22 points and seven assists for Toronto, which despite the loss seems to be getting more comfortable playing under Triano.

"We're getting close to where we want," Calderon told the Raptors' official Web site. "We're going to be OK. I keep being positive because I feel like every day we're a little bit better team.''

The Raptors added some depth Sunday by signing veteran center Jake Voskuhl. He's averaged 4.3 points and 3.6 rebounds in 412 regular-season NBA games with Chicago, Phoenix, Charlotte and Milwaukee.