“Pat (Riley) always thought that I could add the leadership, bringing the team together, that whole thing,” Johnson said. “And he thought I could make some passes to (Patrick) Ewing because of my size and then add something down low, another scorer down low. If you go back to that (Houston) series, if they had one more scorer, they win that series. That’s what he was looking for the one guy to give him that 15-17 points, but, from the inside, that could make everybody else better. He was trying to win.”