4 MVC games Tuesday 12/4

[Phantom]

I know I will catch heck from the ISU-er's but ...isn't it the coach's job to get his team prepared for any and all potential situations?
Surely Jank knew he wasn't going to have Sampay (injury), and it doesn't take a genius to know Odiakosa and Slack are, at times, foul prone.
And when playing on the road, you sometimes get some bad foul calls....
So ..........
JUST WHY could he not have foreseen the possibility of having to go with 4 guards, and maybe have prepared a little for this?
This is exactly what Jim Les foresaw LAST SEASON even before games started and prepared quite well for having to use 4 guards at a time.
I'd say Jank should have learned from Jim Les and been prepared, and your Pantagraph writer seems to be suggesting the same.

The only real possibilities I can think of are that either Jank never imagined this scenario happening for whatever reason (which I dont really believe), or more likely that he never installed that part of his offensive system. He has gone on record time and again as saying he is inputting the system little by little and he is nowhere near the full installment yet. So going by that, I believe him when he says they never worked on a 4-guard portion of the system. Given how guard-heavy we are, I'm sure he has some 4-guard stuff in his bag 'o tricks, but they probably didnt install it/practice it yet. It was obviously something we werent prepared for in that game however. (Though I bet we are now.) Everything he has put in so far clearly involves the post players, so when he was forced to go without them for long stretches, he didnt really have a 2nd gameplan option to go on. I agree, this made him look ill-prepared. Hopefully it serves as a hard learning experience for the staff and the team.