Ollie Palmer put the visitors ahead after just six minutes at Victoria Road, with Jordan Tunnicliffe doubling the advantage six minutes before the break.
Palmer struck again early in the second half, with Jacob Mendy completing the scoring on 70 minutes and James Jones also hitting a post.
And defeat left Daggers down in 11th place, with Jupp telling the club website: “It started tough with losing Junior [Morias] in the warm-up to a calf injury, then for five minutes you go ‘ok, not too bad’.
“And then the first thing you don’t defend you concede, then you’re in trouble.
“Then you kind of go ‘ok, a little response’ and we missed two chances after that, a header and where Birdy [Jay Bird] got across and they come back and punish you.
“Then we concede from another corner, where we don’t defend it properly again, so you go in two down.
“But one goal makes this a tough game, you’re not completely out of it, you’ve had a few spells, you’ve got to tighten up defensively and then we give them a gift after three minutes [of the second half]. Which you can’t do.
“Then they cruised it, they showed their class, showed why they’re up the top, and it showed the gulf in the two teams very simply.”
Jupp was particularly disappointed by how Daggers defended against the promotion hopefuls, who moved four points clear at the summit and took their goals tally to 94 in 36 matches.
He added: “You look at the goals you concede, they’re both from crosses. Stop the cross, mark your men in the box, we’ve said it all season, you’ve got to do the basics.
“Against them you have to do the basics. The top teams will punish you.
“It’s a group mentality to defend better and individual bits and pieces in those areas that have got to be better.
“You look at the difference in the class of player and that’s why they are where they are and we’re where we are.
“They’ve come away with a clean sheet, we haven’t really threatened at all. In the second half we’ve had some good spells but not created anything with it.
“We gave the ball far too easily, they brought the ball down far too easily when they played long, they could play around us, you lose your shape. Just completely shows the gulf in class.”
Despite falling behind so early, Jupp felt Daggers recovered well, but admitted conceding a second before half-time was a hammer blow.
“You go one down and you’ve got a lot of time to get back in the game, you put a few passes together, get a few opportunities and go ‘come on then, we’ve got a chance’,” he said.
“Then the second one goes in and it kind of kills you. Then the third one completely knocks the stuffing out.
“They went into cruise control from then and could and should have had more.”
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