http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/266096Growing more exasperated with each rebound lost and each layup not contested in a 104-103 loss to Real Madrid here yesterday, coach Sam Mitchell seems near wit’s end trying to come up with an answer for a roster flaw.

“We’re searching,” he said after Toronto became the first NBA franchise to ever lose two pre-season games to European club competition. “We have to find guys who’ll get in there and do the tough things.

“We’ve got guys who can shoot the basketball, we have guys who can pass the ball, we have to find guys who’ll go in there and do the dirty work, play that physical role for us.”