cent and a bench that provided as many points in the first three quarters of the game as the Dance Pak did.

A recipe for disaster?

Right you are.

Operating with a miniscule margin for error, the Raptors put on another sloppy performance last night and to the surprise of no one went down to their third straight defeat.

The Utah Jazz turned the 20 Toronto turnovers into 22 points and took control of the game in a mistake-filled third quarter, sending the Raptors to a 94-85 loss at the Air Canada Centre.

"Way, way too many turnovers," said coach Lenny Wilkens, whose team was without, again, Vince Carter, Jerome Williams, Dell Curry and Hakeem Olajuwon. "When you're undermanned, you have to make every opportunity count, or at least get some chances out of them."

But the chances the Raptors got, they blew. And because they can't seem to find consistent offence with so many key players on the sideline, blown opportunities are hugely costly.