We’re a little over a week into the University of Tennessee’s basketball practices and I’m already starting to buy into head coach Cuonzo Martin’s Kool-Aid.

Martin has preached hard work and physicality ever since taking over the team last March.

While many schools began their practice with much-ballyhooed Midnight-Madness-style practices consisting of slam dunk and three-point contests, Martin’s Vols were hard at it in a mostly empty gym, running drills with 20-pound weight vests attached.

It reminded me of Rocky III, when Rocky Balboa trained for his first fight against Clubber Lang in a unfocused, circus-like ...

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