http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/277599 It’s tough to define just what’s missing from Chris Bosh, who can be brilliant for one game, average for another, as maddeningly inconsistent as the Raptor team.

He drives the ball aggressively one night, avoids the paint like it’s poison the next; his jump shot comes and goes from quarter to quarter, it seems.

He’s just off. It’s as vague, really, as that. There’s something missing and the search for it goes on. He’s not feeling entirely well, sounds like he’s got a bad cold, his knee isn’t 100 per cent and he’s still wearing a brace that he doesn’t particularly like.

But he knows all of that doesn’t matter. He doesn’t want to make excuses and no one wants to hear them. As his coach said, the team needs him to be better and he knows that, too.

Sitting in his locker room chair, another poor game in the books, another Raptor home loss to try to dissect, Bosh couldn’t be precise in explaining what’s wrong with him.

“I’m just not there,” he said after Toronto was dispatched 106-100 by the Golden State Warriors yesterday afternoon, dropped down to 5-5 on the season and 2-4 at home, a point hammered home by the increasing number of disgruntled fans in the sold-out Air Canada Centre who rained a few boos down as the locals collapsed in the fourth quarter.