This past season really was not fair to Marcus Johnson. In my humble opinion, he was asked to play out of his best position and we really did not have a viable option as his back-up at point, so he was not able to slide over to the 2 spot for extended periods on a regular basis. Given the numbers that he put up in his junior year, who knows what he might have done this year if he had been able to take up where he left off. Sometimes little things like that leave us wondering what might have been.
Johnson was not awful at point, and I think he would have been considerably better had he had Marcus Johnson alongside him at the other guard spot to take the pressure off him. But, he could not be two places at once, and so he was absentee at one position and encumbered at the other.
So we bid goodbye to MJ on a down note, but we have the memories of that superlative season in which he tied Nick Zachery for the second-best single season 3PT% in school history. It certainly was fun to watch.
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