It looks like it is going to be another long season for Alvyn Williams and the Raptors with the starting point guard already looking worn out and worn down not even a week into training camp, the Toronto Sun is reporting.

Williams has been plagued with knee and ankle injuries for the past three seasons and things are not getting any better, and the vigors of two a day practices which are so common in training camp certainly are not helping matters.

The sitation as a whole has the Raptors' coaching staff worried.

"We're concerned," Sam Mitchell said yesterday morning. "You're heart goes out to him because his body's kind of letting him down. But the guy competes every day and he tries to do everything the right way and hopefully, he can fight through it and help us. It's a day-to-day thing with Alvin.

But because he is who he is, and because he plays as hard and as consistently as anyone who's ever worn a Toronto uniform, Williams will get the benefit of time.

"I'm not going to try to determine Alvin Williams' career for him in five practices," Mitchell said. "That's something that time is going to tell."