<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> </p> It's time for the Nets to set their compasses westward again, but without the optimism of Horace Greeley.</p> </p> With a five-game losing streak in tow and uncertainty about Vince Carter's sprained right ankle, the Nets face the dreaded Thanksgiving sojourn west that is never well timed -- and is even worse this year.</p> </p> "It's horrible," Antoine Wright said after the Nets lost to the Heat Saturday. "Horrible. Nobody's going to be naive about that. Losing all these games and then going west, it's horrible. But we have to just keep believing and stick with it."</p> </p> Although Thanksgiving is one of the most cherished holidays across the country, it comes during what is usually a tortuous week of futility for the Nets. The locals went 0-4 on the November trip last year, are 2-11 over the past three such trips, and just 8-20 in the Jason Kidd era. -- <font color="#000000">Newark Star-Ledger</font></p> </div></p>
