LIKE A STRUGGLING CHEVY DEALERSHIP, RAPTORS CAN'T CLOSE OUT THE CAVALIERS

The late collapse is, of course, the main focus after the Toronto Raptors lost 95-91 last night to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Really, though, they could have had the game in the icebox much earlier.

Since work commitments (and cable packages) often limit me to following the GameCast and double-checking against the play-by-play later that night, I always look for a sequence that might have turned the tide. The Raptors had opened a 10-point lead five minutes into the second quarter when they had two bad possessions in a row: Jose Calderon threw the ball away, then Zydrunas Ilgauskas drew an offensive foul on Kris Humphries.

Next two trips up the floor, LeBron hits a three and makes a driving layup (sandwiched around two missed free throws from Chris Bosh, who's playing with some weird eye infection). Instead of being up 12 or 14, the Raptors' lead was five. Given the way every Cavalier not named LeBron was shooting, only being up 47-44 at halftime wasn't acceptable.

By the way, Scott Carefoot of RaptorBlog has dubbed the Atlantic Division -- where the Raptors' 7-11 record puts them a half-game out of first place -- the "Titanic Division." Pass it on.