DeMarre Carroll never quite fitted well with the Toronto Raptors and now that he's been traded to the Brooklyn Nets, the forward is busy putting some salt on his tracks as he makes his way out of Canada. While admitting that his salary had reduced greatly the Raptors' leg room financially, Carroll commented that his style of play didn't really gel well with the team.

In an interview with Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun, Carroll has this to say:

“I wasn’t happy, my agent, we thought the style of ball was going to be different, it was going to be more team-oriented, but I guess it was still ISO, so I thought they would have moved me last year, but that didn’t happen.”

Carroll arrived in Toronto in 2015 after two years of suiting up for the Atlanta Hawks and quickly saw the difference in culture between the two teams. The eight-year veteran noted that the Raptors lacked the team-oriented offensive flow he was used to with the Hawks, as Toronto greatly relied on the individual skills of its main backcourt players in DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry.

“If you’ve been playing ISO ball so long, and that’s all you know, it’s going to be kind of hard. I think you have to bring certain guys in, certain coaches in, to really build that type of culture and I feel like Toronto is an ISO team, that’s what they win off (of), that’s what they’ve been playing off of for five, six years now.”

Moreover, Carroll believed that the Raptors' tendency to give too much focus on their star players harmed the team's chemistry and damaged their trust among each other, especially when the tactic wasn't working.

“But once adversity hits and stuff starts going wrong, guys are going to go back to ISO basketball, that’s how it is. You’ve got to trust it. It’s one of those things you’ve got to build, you’ve just got to trust each other. This year, I feel like a lot of guys didn’t trust each other and a lot of guys, they didn’t feel like other guys could produce or (be) given the opportunity, so there was a lot of lack of trust on our team, so that’s what hindered us from going (as far as they wanted to go).”

Toronto traded Carroll to the Nets this summer for a couple of draft picks and veteran big man Justin Hamilton in an attempt by the team to clear some cap space and for them to get below the NBA's luxury tax threshold. In two seasons with the Raptors, Carroll averaged 11.8 points and 5.4 rebounds per contest in 98 total games.