Raptors need to play a lot harder at home

Toronto Raptors need to own their home court if these guys want to make the playoffs and a 0-3 week with all the games but if they want to win they diffidently could as the Atlantic division is now the titanic division. The Raptors on Tuesday with like four days off before hosting the injured Brooklyn Nets and lost 102-100 with Amir Johnson taken a three at the buzzer and missed it but there no excuse for the Raptors to be down 15 as late as 3 and a half minutes and outscored the Nets 14-1. They should of shown up a lot earlier in the game and would of won in a laugher and made it a bigger lead in the division and it was DeMar DeRozan (27 points, 9 of 15) and Kyle Lowery (24 points, 8 of 15) had 52 of the Raptors 100 points while taken 30 shots while the rest of the team took 48 shots to make the same 17 field goals. On Friday the Raptors faced the heat and they were completely out classed by the heat as they stepped in front of the Raptors and getting into the passing lane creating most of 17 turnovers and the 10 steals in the first three quarters of the game as they down 78-70 after three. They were down 20 (74-54) with 5 minutes left in the quarter and went on a 16-4 run to end the quarter down only 8 (78-70) and got it to two points (83-81) with 4:40 left and Lebron Raymond James outscored the Raptors 7-2 the rest of the game as the Raps did not make a field goal in the last 4:40 of the game as they lost 90-83. Kyle Lowery was shell shocked by facing the heat as he turnover the ball 7 times in the game and it showed on his face as DeMar had to take him aside and com him down in the third quarter as the heat were reading mail. On Sunday they faced the Denver Nuggets and got out to a huge lead 27-12 and DeMar DeRozan scored 11 points and the Raptors made 7 of their first 9 shots all with just less than 4 minutes left in the first quarter and then the Nuggets showed up and went on a 13-4 run to cut the lead to 6 (31-25) after the first quarter. The Nuggets outscored the Raptors by 20 points (87-67) in the last three quarters as their bench outscored the Raps bench 72-16 as the Raps shot 28 of 78 after starting 7 of 9. The downslide started when Dwayne Casey went to the bench as Terrance Ross (10 points) and Steve Novak (6 points) were the only scorers off the bench even Amir Johnson who came off the bench had only 3 boards in 14 minutes. Even when the starters came back in it was just was not the same as Jonas Valanciunas had moat efficient shooting day as he went 8 of 16 from the floor (18 points and 11 boards). The Nuggets off the bench Nate Robinson had 23 points, Timofey Mozgov had 14 points and 15 boards, and Darrell Arthur was perfect from the field (7 of 7 ) for 14 points. So the Raptors are 3 and 6 (.333) and they are need to punch the opponents in the mouth and early and often like the teams in the league Pacers (9-0), Bulls (5-0),Heat (9-1), Portland (6-1), Clippers (8-2), and OKC (9-0) and none of these team lie down and let teams come into their own building unlike the Raptors do on regular basis. Raptors head into the mile high city with Nuggets (6-2) as they go party all the way with the Nuggets as they complete in the second half of a home and home series Tom Mehegan