Seems like a lot of people think we're playing the 2003 sqwawks. The guys we're playing are a bunch of swingmen that cant dribble with black Ronald McDonald and an effeminate T-Rex at forward. Oh, and they have no bench.
McLemore is really good, but KU has been keyed by great PG play forever. Taylor, Collins, Chalmers, Robinson, Miles... all these guys were studs.
Johnson and Tharpe are not those guys. Now, they aren't bad, but they key is all those guys had assist rates in the upper 20s, shot 3s well AND had FT rates in the upper 40s. Johnson's FT rate is 21% and Tharpe's is 11%; these aren't guys that get into the lane and draw fouls like the typical Self PGs.
I think we can win this game, and its not silly to think so.