The Wolves lost and Rubio expressed his anger with Porter

The Cuban-American power forward Brook Lopez again showed his great form to contribute 22 points that helped the Nets to Brooklyn to win at home (83-91) at Minnesota Timberwolves.

Lopez, who has All-Star numbers and hopes to be selected among the Eastern Conference reserves to be in Houston on Feb. 17, scored 10 of 16 field goals and contributed seven rebounds.

The shooting guard Joe Johnson, the hero of the Nets on Monday in the match against the New York Knicks, and point guard Deron Williams scored 18 points each, while the second also eight assists, which left him in team leader that facet of the game.

The reserve guard C.J. Watson emerged as the sixth man for the Nets to contribute 14 points and complete the list of four players on the team from Brooklyn who had two-digit numbers.

The win was the third straight for the Nets (26-16), which under the leadership of interim coach P.J.Carlesimo have a winning record of 12-2 and 9-1 since he has been maintained lineup Lopez, Williams, Johnson, Gerald Wallace and Reggie Evans.

The triumph of the Nets, who remain a half-game of the Knicks (25-14) in the fight for the lead in the Atlantic Division, was the first who got in the last nine visits they made to the Target Center in Minneapolis.

The Russian forward Andrei Kirilenko was the leader of the decimated Timberwolves to contribute 15 points, six rebounds and four assists, but did not prevent the team's seventh loss in eight games they have played.

The reserve power forward Dante Cunningham had 14 points, guard Luke Ridnour hit the top 13 and another man who came off the bench, Chris Johnson reached the 12 points and six rebounds.

But the Timberwolves (17-22) as a team captured 37 rebounds for the Nets 45.

The absences of tall men, power forward Kevin Love and Montenegrin Center Nikola Pekovic, both casualties due to injury, was felt again in the indoor play for the Timberwolves, who neither had the base rookie Russian Alexey Shved, who suffered a sprained left ankle.

The baseman Jose Juan Barea played 24 minutes as a reserve for the Timberwolves and was the leader in the direction of the game by providing 11 points (5-11, 1-4, 0-0), eight assists, four rebounds and recovered a ball.

The Spanish guard Ricky Rubio continued to head, but still can’t be winning factor to make five points in the 24 minutes he played.

Rubio scored May 2 field goals, missed a triple, six assists, and team-leader, recovered three fumbles, but lost four.

The player Masnou want to spend more time in the field, but interim coach Terry Porter, who holds the post of Rick Adelman, who is absent due to health of his wife, made no concessions to Rubio of going over the 24 minutes, something I did not like.

"I hate that I feel, but he did what he thinks is best for the team," Rubio said at the conclusion of the match. "I think it's time I should know what happens and we talk."