The Raptors return home from the Lone Star State with an empty feeling.

In Big D Sunday night , a 39-point third quarter led to Toronto’s demise.

Monday night in San Antonio, the Raptors gave up 41 first-quarter points, the most yielded in a period four games into a new season.

It’s not hard to dissect what has gone wrong.

Scoring isn’t the issue, but preventing opponents from filling up the boxscore remains the biggest area of deficiency.

Toronto has gone through a gauntlet of opposition skilled bigs in dropping three games in a row.

Meanwhile, the team’s incumbent big, Jakob Poeltl, has gone missing in action.

In fairness, he has been hobbled with a back issue suffered in the pre-season finale and left Monday’s game in the fourth quarter because of lower back tightness.

He hasn’

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