Those aspects of a military mentality are things that would certainly be valuable to any contact sports team and I think it’s no surprise that a few successful coaches in history do have a military background (or demeanor).

But to your point, I heard about a team the other day that has been running 6-8 miles a day, which I would argue has less value than these military exercises, believe it or not (though we don’t know that they’re NOT doing that too.

http://developyourbballiq.com/hard2guard-player-development-newsletter-vol-5/newsletter-5-23/

I guess we’ll see how wise this was come tournament time? :)