TORONTO -- The Atlanta Hawks will be back at the Air Canada Centre for the second time in two weeks on Friday night.That has hardly been long enough to erase the pain of their visit on Dec. 3 when the Toronto Raptors trounced them 128-84. The 44-point margin of victory the largest in Raptors history.Not much has changed since then. The Raptors (18-7) continue to roll, having won four in a row and 10 of their last 11 games, including a 123-114 decision over the 76ers in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.The Hawks (12-13) continue to struggle after a 9-2 start to the season.The Hawks took a 131-120 loss at home to the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night after winning their two previous games. It was the highest point total against the Hawks since the Golden State Warriors scored 137 points on March 4, 2008.I dont know exactly how I would describe it but there is some level of frustration, Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said. There is some level of optimism. I do think we are doing some things better. We need to do more things better for more of the 48 minutes. I would say there was a stretch when offensively, we were really, really struggling. We have taken two steps forward there. Maybe we have regressed defensively. We have to be moving forward with both.We definitely had a lot of steps forward to start and then a lot of steps back, said Hawks reserve forward Kris Humphries, a former Raptor. Then a comeback win (over the Milwaukee Bucks) for a step forward. I think you have to look at the next seven games and gauge if our momentum is going the right way and judge how we are playing. Sometimes, a game like (the loss to the Magic) is hard to judge where you are at. The way they played, they would have beat anyone in the league.The Raptors currently have the highest-rated offense in the NBA, but they were outscored in the fourth quarter Wednesday by the 76ers 40-31 and had a 19-point lead with 5:39 to play cut to six with 41 seconds remaining before they held on for the nine-point margin. Coach Dwane Casey was not pleased.Its a great example: the game is never over until its over, Casey said. Were not good enough to let up and relax. Every team in this league can come back and get you. Thats whats upsetting about a good-going game until the fourth quarter. Gave up 40 points and 50 percent shooting because we took our foot off the gas pedal and you cant do that in this league.DeMar DeRozan had 31 points against the 76ers after scoring 30 against the Milwaukee Bucks in Torontos win on Monday.We just understand what needs to be done, DeRozan said. Not much has to be said. We kind of know after a lot of games what we need to be better at next game. 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TROON, Scotland -- Former British Open champion Ben Curtis managed a chuckle when he came off the course with a 10 on his scoreboard.He wasnt in such a good mood a few hours earlier, when he knocked his ball in three different bunkers on the way to a sextuple bogey.I wanted to go jump in the ocean, Curtis said with a weak smile.His troubles began when he drove into a fairway bunker at the 377-yard third hole, the second-shortest of all the par 4s at Royal Troon.Curtis had a decent lie in the sand and thought he could possibly get it to the front of the green, but that was far too optimistic for a player whose game has been in disarray. His shot clipped the lip of the bunker, the ball plugging when it fell back in, leaving him with no real shot. It took two more swings just to get onto the fairway.Turns out, there was more havoc to come. Curtis dumped his fifth shot in a bunker in front of the green, needed two more swings to escape that patch of sand -- only to watch helplessly as the ball rolled into another bunker behind the green. He finally got the next one to stay on the short grass and two-putted for his 10.Youve got to stay out of them, he said of the devilish bunkers dotting the linkks course.dddddddddddd I should have just chipped out the first time. But when youre 6 over, you need to make some birdies.With no chance to make the cut, Curtis meandered through the rest of a rainy round with seven bogeys on the next 14 holes, before a birdie at No. 18 left him at 12-over 83 -- his worst Open round ever.Curtis finished a most forgettable week with a cumulative score of 18-over 160, missing out on the weekend for the third year in a row and seventh time in the last eight years.This is typical of how Ive been playing all year, he said. The motivation, the heart, it kind of goes out you (after a 10). At that point, you just want to finish.Since his improbable win as an Open rookie in 2003, Curtis has missed the cut 10 times and hasnt finished higher that a tie for seventh in 2008.He can take some solace from his Troon debacle.I wont be the last person to ever do that in the Open, he said, maybe not even today.---Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/paul-newberry . cheap falcons jerseys cheap ravens jerseys cheap bills jerseys cheap bears jerseys cheap bengals jerseys cheap cowboys jerseys cheap lions jerseys cheap texans jerseys cheap colts jerseys cheap jaguars jerseys cheap chiefs jerseys cheap rams jerseys cheap dolphins jerseys cheap vikings jerseys cheap saints jerseys cheap giants jerseys cheap jets jerseys cheap eagles jerseys cheap steelers jerseys cheap 49ers jerseys ' ' '