Vanderbilt had two players that it expected to start miss a good chunk of the season to injury, and of the two, Rodney Chatman’s absence hurt more. That wasn’t expected, but the difference was that without Chatman, Vanderbilt replaced him with some combination of Tyrin Lawrence and Shane Dezonie, which didn’t go so well.
Robbins’ absence led to Quentin Millora-Brown starting 30 games. That actually worked out pretty well.
Millora-Brown, in his second season playing for Vanderbilt after transferring from Rice and sitting out a year, wasn’t an offensive force, averaging just 5.3 ppg. He did shoot 65 percent from the floor and got to the foul line a lot (though, uh, what he did at the foul line needs some work), but he wasn’t a player that Vanderbilt was running offense through.