''If you look at the lineup we had in there, Chris was going to be the focal point,'' interim Raptors coach Jay Triano said. ''We didn't really have a lot of points on the floor, but I said, 'It doesn't matter. We're giving the ball to Chris, and they can't stop him.'''

Zach Randolph had 19 points and eight rebounds for Los Angeles during a foul-plagued 28 minutes, and left the game with 10:44 to play after bruising his left knee in a collision with Jake Voskuhl on a layup by Bosh 16 seconds earlier.

''That was tough,'' Baron Davis said. ''It shocked everybody that he was walking off the court. He's our horse. He's the guy we're going to go to on the block, so we want him to have the ball because he scores on anybody and he makes good decisions. So any time you lose your horse, your go-to guy, it's tough.''

O'Neal added 23 points and nine rebounds for Toronto. Many of O'Neal's points came in the first three quarters and helped the Raptors set the tone early.

''When we started, we talked about the process,'' Triano said. ''If you look at the last couple of games and the way we're playing defence right now, we are making progress. But we have to make sure we continue to work. Then we'll find our legs and start making shots.''

Elsewhere in the NBA it was: Houston 114 New Jersey 91; Los Angeles Lakers 105 Memphis 96; Orlando 113 Golden State 81; San Antonio 101 Sacramento 85; and Denver 97 Portland 89.

At Los Angeles, rookie Eric Gordon also scored 19 points for the Clippers, coming off a 119-85 drubbing at Milwaukee that ended their 2-2 road trip. Baron Davis had 16 points and nine rebounds. Al Thornton, the only Clipper who also played in Los Angeles' previous meeting with Toronto on Feb. 8, missed nine of 10 shots and equalled a season low with five points in 34 minutes.

Trailing by as many as 21 late in the first half, the Clippers got as close as 66-60 in the final minute of the third quarter as Randolph scored nine points during an 18-5 run. But Randolph's injury ended any hopes of a Clippers comeback.

''Hopefully it's just a bone bruise,'' Randolph said. ''It's a little sore, but I expect that right now. I just need to keep icing it.''

Bosh scored 12 consecutive Toronto points during a 3:02 span to help increase a 15-point lead to 92-73 with 4:43 remaining. He got a tad greedy and shot an airball from 25 feet about a minute later, much to the delight of the crowd of 16,094.

Marcus Camby, whose current streak of 15 consecutive games with double-digit rebounds included a career-high 27 for the Clippers at Chicago last Wednesday, missed the game due to personal reasons. As a result, Brian Skinner made his first start of the season at centre while Randolph shifted to power forward.

''We thought we'd have a little bit of an advantage inside, especially with Marcus out,'' Triano said. ''But that was the game plan -- even if Marcus was here -- that we would attack that team inside because we knew they were depleted with injuries.''

The Raptors led 51-32 at halftime after holding the Clippers to 30.8 per cent shooting. Randolph, who scored only four points in 25 minutes during Saturday's loss to the Bucks, went to the bench with 7:23 left in the first quarter after picking up his first two fouls 66 seconds apart.

The Raptors went on a 14-4 run during the next 4:14 while Randolph was on the bench, and it didn't get any better for the Clippers after their leading scorer got his third foul with 9 1-2 minutes left in the second quarter. Coach Mike Dunleavy left him on the floor this time, and Toronto scored 13 straight points during a 4:04 stretch to pull out to a 48-29 lead after Randolph's 20-footer reduced the deficit to six.