Again the Raptors played hard at the end, trying to heal self-inflicted wounds, trying to steal a game they had seemingly let slip away earlier.
Again it wasn’t enough.
Falling to 1-11 on the second game of back-to-backs this season, the Raptors couldn’t dig out of an 18-point hole and dropped a 102-96 decision to the Knicks in New York on Sunday.
It was a repeat of so many games this season, games in which the Raptors were outplayed for most of the night, came storming back in the final few minutes and got nothing for their effort.