The near month-long wait for meaningful basketball having passed and with the Toronto Raptors’ season-opener in front of him Wednesday, DeMarre Carroll admitted that training camp has happily run its course.
“I think we’re all tired of playing each other,” the Raptors’ prized free-agent acquisition said, before he got into the across-the-board theme of the team’s off-season and this year’s training camp: defence.
The six-foot-eight forward said that coach Dwane Casey’s camp has been more defensive minded than the previous ones he’s been a part of in his six-year, five-team career.
“Coach Casey is definitely a defensive-minded coach and that’s the type of coach that I like,” Carroll said.