Together they would be an amazing hybrid, experienced and athletic with solid offensive range and some nights Sam Mitchell must lay awake dreaming of the possibilities.

He'd take Aaron Williams and his two appearances in the NBA Finals, meld it with the 7-2 shot-blocking frame of Loren Woods and the 15-foot jump shot range of Rafael Araujo and ? finally ? he'd have a centre he could use.

But those are dreams and the NBA is reality and the reality is Mitchell has to choose between three tremendously flawed players when it comes time to make a decision on who starts and who finishes in the middle for the Raptors this season.

It is not an easy decision, not one Mitchell is ready to make any time soon.

"The position is wide open," Mitchell said yesterday. "We've got three guys that play it. It's up to them, I'm not going to decide who is starting, they are.

"We'll try to give them equal minutes and see who does the best job. It's not just going to be predicated on what they do, it's how (the team plays with them). We don't necessarily need a lot of points from that position; we need defence and rebounding from that position. Those are the two main things I'm focusing on from that position."