as you do. With the Lawal and Johnson injuries, we've missed essentially one starter worth of minutes over the season. That's a lot, especially when you look at what we've been short in recent games: an additional outside shooter and someone to stop dribble penetration. Johnson is not elite at either of those, but he's very good at both and is versatile enough on the defensive end that we could get away with playing a Hammond, Schutt, Johnson lineup against the right matchups. That's an excellent perimeter shooting combination. At other times, we could play Johnson rather than Schutt and have roughly the same perimeter success with better defense. (Johnson has roughly the same 3-point percentage as Schutt in lower volume, but challenges defenses more inside the 3-point line.) Lawal's injury hurt, but an injury to a player with Johnson's versatility forcing him to miss nearly all of conference play was one that few teams in the country could absorb. We would not have been a championship contender with him, but I think we'd be safely in the tournament field right now.