<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Through most of the first three quarters of last night's 101-85 victory over the Sacramento Kings at the Air Canada Centre, the Raptors bench was looking for anyone other than Morris Peterson to contribute. One of the MIAs was Joey Graham. Then with 24.6 seconds remaining in the third quarter, Graham swooped in from the left baseline, elevated and tipped home a missed shot by Andrea Bargnani, giving the Raps a one-point lead. From that point, the bench took over, with Peterson, Bargnani, Jose Calderon and Joey Graham bringing emotion down the stretch. To some, the fact that Graham remained on the court through the fourth quarter may have been a surprise. When you're a player with an uneven history of focus and results and you are coming off the very deep Raptors bench, as is Graham, it will always be a struggle to prove to the coach that you deserve the extra minutes. "Sure it's big when he has faith in you like that," Graham said. "He knew some of the (foul) calls were bogus. Even the refs knew it." There may not be a player in coach Sam Mitchell's three years at the helm that has continually frustrated him as much for not translating obvious talent into game performance as Graham. Even after his fourth personal foul with time left in the third, he still left Graham in the game. Without a bucket to the point of committing his fourth foul, Graham ended up with 10 as part of a 31-point second half by the Raptors' bench. Last year, as one of three raw, but talented rookies on a losing team, every mistake was magnified. One didn't have to look far to find a scapegoat. With Graham there were moments both on and off the court. Take for instance the time early in his rookie season that Graham was supposed to substitute, but remained crouched in front of the scorer's table through a whistle and a referee's discussion with Mitchell, without checking in. Mitchell was not amused. "A lot of times it was rookie foul trouble," Graham acknowledged of his uneventful 19.9 minutes per game last year. "You have to learn, you have to grow."</div> Source
He is a huge player. He is the kinda guy that dosnt care who u are, what your name is, or anything, u are wearing a teams jeresey then the raptors, then he's coming and u better watch out becuase he will play hard.
