Master, Pelphrey and Padgett

[KWilt43atbuzz]

I was looking at the numbers of these 3 UK greats and arguably my 3 favs of all time, and found some very eerie similarities:
First, they are in consecutive order on the alltime UK scoring list:
31. Jim Master 1,283.
32. John Pelphrey 1,257.
33. Scott Padgett 1,252.
They all played 4 yrs and each players career high in scoring in a single game was 29 points.
Two are native Kentuckians and one is from Indiana.
Creepy.

 

[W_Heisenberg]

You have way too much time on your hands.

 

[tank2009]

Guess you wwould hqve to say padgett was the better of the 3 since he had a short run in the nba.

Master was a heck of a shooter, and pelphrey.....he was from kentucky.

 

[KWilt43atbuzz]

Guess you wwould hqve to say padgett was the better of the 3 since he had a short run in the nba.

Master was a heck of a shooter, and pelphrey.....he was from kentucky.

They could all shoot it from deep.

 

[bthaunert]

Guess you wwould hqve to say padgett was the better of the 3 since he had a short run in the nba.

Master was a heck of a shooter, and pelphrey.....he was from kentucky.

Padgett actually had an 8 year run in the NBA, maing about $7.5 million.

 

[NCukcat62]

Padgett actually had an 8 year run in the NBA, maing about $7.5 million.

Yeah I was about to say Padgett had a pretty decent nba career. Haha

 

[.S&C.]

You have way too much time on your hands.

If you think it takes a lot of time to come up with that post you're delusional.

 

[.S&C.]

Guess you wwould hqve to say padgett was the better of the 3 since he had a short run in the nba.

Master was a heck of a shooter, and pelphrey.....he was from kentucky.

He didn't have a short run. He had a good NBA career actually, making more than lots of guys and playing average years. I think he actually played 8 or 9 years IIRC

 

[GLR5555]

Master reminded me of Macy 2.0

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

I'll always have a soft spot for pelphrey because of his post-dook game interview from the locker room where he broke down and couldn't finish. I like those players who wear their emotions on their sleeves (chuck hayes is another who comes immediately to mind) where being a wildcat is concerned.

 

[UK90]

Master reminded me of Macy 2.0

That was actually kinda his curse. He came in the year after Macy left and the similarities were so striking--both Indiana Mr. Basketballs, both clean cut white guards, both pure shooters with strikingly similar shooting form, etc.--that people were labeling him the "Next Kyle Macy" from the moment he arrived.

Funny thing is, objectively Master did have an excellent career, started nearly his entire time here, put up big time career stats, went to the final four his senior year, etc., yet there was always this weird underlying sentiment amongst many of our fans that he was still disappointing because he was never as good as Macy. Really an unfair burden that got put on that kid's shoulders.

 

[TriangleUKCat]

He didn't have a short run. He had a good NBA career actually, making more than lots of guys and playing average years. I think he actually played 8 or 9 years IIRC

8 years. Made ~7.5 mil in total. 1.67 mil in 05-06.