The Raptors bench, in bygone months one of the team’s true strengths, is all of a sudden a liability.
And its inefficiency was much of the reason for the team’s latest defeat.
Unable to even sustain what the starters had done in erasing a deficit as large as 22 points, the backups faltered in the first six minutes of the fourth quarter at the Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday in what turned into a 107-95 loss to the Houston Rockets.