Things were going so well for Mark Few.
And then bam!
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Or snap?
"It's unfortunate, but it's just the way it is," Few said Monday before the first of two scheduled surgeries on two of his Gonzaga players. "It happens, you know. The Vikings lost Adrian Peterson."
Yes, they did.
But the Vikings aren't trying to make their first Final Four in history. Gonzaga is. And this is no way to start that quest, by losing both Josh Heytvelt and Steven Gray for four to six weeks to a pair of surgeries within 24 hours of each other.
Heytvelt spent Monday having surgery on his ailing foot.
Gray spent Tuesday having surgery on his fractured wrist.
Which is why Few will spend the rest of the week doing a makeover on his broken game plans.
"You go in with a plan of how you want to play and you're practicing that way and implementing that system, and then all of a sudden some main entities of how you want to play are taken away," Few said.
"And then you're like, 'Well, I don't think this play is going to work with that player' because you're now operating with some different pieces, and their strengths aren't the same as the strengths of the guys you lost. So we're going to have to change totally. We'll have to go back to smallball like the Bad News Bears, fighting and scrapping."
Sounds like fun, doesn't it?
