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LOS ANGELES — Norm Powell knows this can’t continue.

The Raptors’ starting wing has put in too much work, spent too much time in the gym, for him to continue to shoot the way he is shooting.

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Basketball players get into funks. What Powell is in right now is a funk for the ages.

He has not sank a three-pointer in four consecutive games after starting out the year with three in the season opener.

His shooting percentage from three is a woeful 21.4%. He might be able to live with that a little easier if his shooting percentage from the field hadn’t all-but flat-lined at 29%.

In his past four games Powell has made four shots. He has attempted 22.

This is not what we have come to expect from Powell and it sure as hell isn’t what he expects of himself.

“The shots just haven’t been falling right now,” a clearly frustrated Powell said. “I mean I’m still a basketball player. I still got to go out there and play, make plays for my team. I focus on my all around game even when the stats might not show on the scoreboard what I’m doing. Eventually that will change, there’s no question in my mind about that at all.”