How well does Ken Shuman play?
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Ken Shuman
First of all...The Northeast part of the country had probably the best Straight Pool players in the Country, I am from Pa...Second..when I started reading this thread, I had a pounding headache,..but after reading all of the threads my headache was gone, and had me laughing, and I want to Thank everyone for all of the fun entertainment..I am not sure how strong Ken plays...but I will say that he is a super guy and loves the game of Pool....Thank you Ken for your support of the game, and many more years to come..Duker
First of all...The Northeast part of the country had probably the best Straight Pool players in the Country, I am from Pa...Second..when I started reading this thread, I had a pounding headache,..but after reading all of the threads my headache was gone, and had me laughing, and I want to Thank everyone for all of the fun entertainment..I am not sure how strong Ken plays...but I will say that he is a super guy and loves the game of Pool....Thank you Ken for your support of the game, and many more years to come..Duker
Yeah, well... There's a lot of people here on AZ that think they can play just because they can make a wing ball using a magic rack and run out in 9 ball, so I'll take your comment with a grain of salt.
I saw Ken's commentary on a few USBTC 8 Ball matches, and I literally never saw him make a wrong call. I've seen lots of short stops get out the wrong way in bar box 8 ball, but Ken was calling the RIGHT sequences... High percentage, as little cue ball movement as possible, and he called non-intutive sequences correctly, because they offered more stop shot position that way, and less chance of error.
Granted, it was bar box 8 ball, but in my opinion, bar box 8 ball is a much better measurement of pool ability that the current magic rack 9 ball. I can play a liitle bar box 8 ball, and i was actually surprised how often Ken and I agreed on certain shots, considering some of them took a little bit of refined thinking.
Short Bus Russ
I saw Ken's commentary on a few USBTC 8 Ball matches, and I literally never saw him make a wrong call. I've seen lots of short stops get out the wrong way in bar box 8 ball, but Ken was calling the RIGHT sequences... High percentage, as little cue ball movement as possible, and he called non-intutive sequences correctly, because they offered more stop shot position that way, and less chance of error.
Granted, it was bar box 8 ball, but in my opinion, bar box 8 ball is a much better measurement of pool ability that the current magic rack 9 ball. I can play a liitle bar box 8 ball, and i was actually surprised how often Ken and I agreed on certain shots, considering some of them took a little bit of refined thinking.
Short Bus Russ
Ken does a really good job describing the options that the player is facing, especially in bar box 8 ball. I for one appreciate his analysis.
Commentating is a tough gig because it draws a lot of critics. I myself am guilty of complaining about somebody's commentary at one point. Like any position in the public eye, it is impossible to please everybody. I hope that any commentators reading this take this into consideration, and not let it bother them. For every one critic, there is a hundred people who were completely satisfied and have no reason to leave feedback of any kind. So hopefully this will be encouraging to some of you commentators who read AZB.
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He never beat me either!
