Marcus Smart needs more time in Sensory-Deprivation tank - J. R. Smith doesn't need it

In reader comments to my articles yesterday surrounding the dust-up between Marcus Smart and J. R. Smith, at least one thing became very clear - Celtics fans despise J. R. Smith. But most love Marcus.

But in a previous article centered on the terrific Auerbach Training Center, I had mentioned Smart's praise of the flotation tank, which is generally called a Sensory Deprivation Chamber.

The tank is constructed to relieve stress by floating the occupant in warm water with an extremely high concentration of salts, thereby depriving that person of the senses of sight, smell, hearing and sound.The idea is the occupant is deprived of most senses and emerges from the tank totally relaxed. But as I…