The Raptors need to get out of town.

They are so tight and so tense and so nervous playing in front of their home crowd that they barely have the muscle control to propel themselves up the court or to play basic defence.

That's what an 11-game losing streak will do to your legs and to your confidence.

The Raptors, who will be on the road for the next five games, only can hope a change of scenery and a change of uniform colour will shake them out of their funk. They have shown little ability to do it themselves, their 96-84 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers at the Air Canada Centre yesterday providing the most recent evidence.