TORONTO — Being big is good in basketball.

Not all big players are good, of course, and many smaller players are more than good enough.

Right now, the Toronto Raptors are nowhere near good enough, and one reason is that they’re not big enough. There is more than one reason that the Raptors have started their season 1-4 after a 139-121 loss at home to the Houston Rockets, Toronto’s fourth straight after gaining their lone win in Atlanta on the opening night of the season.

But the most significant reason, by far, is that the Raptors had no way to compete with the Rockets’ super-sized lineup at Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday night.

The Raptors did a lot of things that would normally correlate to winning an NBA game or at least pushing it to the wire.

Brandon Ingram, their designated score

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