Nick Nurse explains what went wrong for Raptors in blowout loss

Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse addressed the media after his team fell to the Charlotte Hornets. He spoke about whether or not there’s anything to take away from an ugly loss, and how Pascal Siakam battled through some flu-like symptoms.Follow our Raptors coverage all season long on Yahoo Sports Canada.

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- Uh, anything out of that, [INAUDIBLE] down from the start, never got in it. You didn't ever have a game like that at all?

NICK NURSE: Not much. I mean, Doug, I think the only thing we can see is hopefully it gets us a little conditioning and a little rust off from the break, and we can bounce back tomorrow. And didn't have to log super heavy minutes. More just getting guys going here a little bit. And hopefully, I know we'll play better tomorrow.

- Wasn't it because of this rusty time off that got off this--

NICK NURSE: Well, yeah, a combination. Again, we didn't get back early. We didn't pick up we. Were kind of back and didn't communicate very well. I just thought-- geez, the list is long.

I thought the loose balls, of them looked like they were less than 50-50 balls, like 70-30 in our favor. And we couldn't come up with some of them. Didn't guard in transition, like I mentioned. Turned the ball over a ton right at the start, and that's hard to play defense when you're doing that. We just didn't have a lot of pop or zip or focus tonight.

- How did you take [INAUDIBLE] you saw up there?

NICK NURSE: No, he was OK. He said he felt good, and he didn't have a whole lot of issues there. I think Pascal came down with some flu-like symptoms this afternoon, but decided to give it a go. And he couldn't really get anything going either.

So between the two of them and just not much of offense that we need to get clicking or just hang in there. And I thought we were actually OK shape there for as bad as we started, and we kind of had it at 12 with about six minutes to go in the half. I was kind of like keep it 10 to 12 to 14, 15 at half, a we'll will be in with a chance. And then, they went on about a 10, 11 run down in the half in the last three or four minutes. So that pretty much did us in.