"Dwane Casey likes to talk about "disposition" when it comes to the Raptors, a catch-all word for how they go about handling themselves and the intensity and toughness they bring to the game each night.

For most nights the coach is okay with those aspects, even if his offensively-challenged group can't make a basket to save their collective souls because it is "disposition" that he most wants to install with this group.

But part of "disposition" has to be desperation, a leave-it-all-on-the-floor-do-whatever-it-takes attitude that was sorely lacking here Wednesday night and the one point the coach wanted to hammer home after a 96-73 shellacking by the Boston Celtics was over."