Music: {allcanada} RAPTORS SEEK TO BREAK LENGTHY LOSING STREAK IN CHARLOTTE

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

{allcanada} RAPTORS SEEK TO BREAK LENGTHY LOSING STREAK IN CHARLOTTE

(SportsNetwork.com) - The Toronto Raptors will look to break a five-game losing streak at Charlotte when they take on the Bobcats Wednesday night at the Time-Warner Arena.

Listen to the game live on TSN Radio 1050 at 7pm et.

The Raptors fell at home to the two-time defending champs, the Miami Heat, 104-95 on Tuesday night. The Heat shot 43.5 percent from behind the 3-point line and only committed 13 turnovers, which led to just five Raptors points. Toronto only coughed it up 15 times, but nine of those occurred in the fourth quarter.

"Those turnovers in that one stretch broke our back," acknowledged coach Dwane Casey.

DeMar DeRozan paced the Raptors with 21 points, followed by a fine game from center Jonas Valanciunas, who had 18 points and nine boards. Rudy Gay and Kyle Lowry both had 13 points and Terrance Ross contributed 11 off the bench.

The Raptors made a game of it against the Heat, but they went cold from the field with two minutes to go.

"We were only six down," Casey said. " We have to make shots late in games to stay in games."

The Bobcats are coming off of a 102-97 win over the New York Knicks on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.

They were fortunate in that Tyson Chandler, the former Defensive Player of the Year, was injured in the first quarter when he collided knee-to-knee with Charlotte's Kemba Walker. Chandler did not return and the Bobcats put up 64 points in the first half.

"We want to push the pace. That's how we want to play," said Walker. "We want to get up and down. We want to play great defense and get stops and push in transition."

Walker led the Bobcats with 25 points, six assists and five rebounds. Gerald Henderson was next with 18 points, followed by 16 from Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, who played a great all-around game, 13 from Jeff Taylor and Ramon Sessions, who had 10.

The two squads split last season's four meetings with the home team prevailing each time. The Bobcats are 8-3 in their last 11 against Toronto.

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