CHICAGO—Fourth-quarter time has been winning time so often for the Toronto Raptors this season, they are generally offensively efficient and defensively sound. Then a night pops up like Monday and it all goes horribly awry.
Beaten soundly from the last few minutes of the third quarter until the final buzzer sounded, the Raptors dropped a 104-97 decision to the Chicago Bulls here, unable to summon the kind of finishing kick they usually have.
Chicago, led by 22 points from Pau Gasol and outstanding bench production from Tony Snell (22), Aaron Brooks (17) and Bobby Portis (12), used a 19-4 run bridging the end of the third quarter and the start of the fourth to drop Toronto to 19-13 on the season.