simple, who cares if they go, I mean the offensive coach defensive coach special shots coach etc was aan absolute joke its not like there are timeouts in the match plus these "coaches" maybe bar Oscar all have less experience and are not as good as the others so that to me would cause more unrest than positivity having shuff try tell me how to get out if I was svb corey Schmidt etc there US open champions
however it was a team of 8 all were going together regardless how stupid should have followed through, Oscar wants to keep stealing at his own mezz cue tour
Who here on AZ has ever done some warmup drills or training drills by themselves. You get a certain level of efficiency out of hitting balls by yourself. Then who here has ever had a non player or much lesser player rack balls to practice your break or setup balls for a drill, much more efficient better but still you the player review wth your own eyes and thoughts. Then sometimes you are playing and traveling with a better player or taking lessons from a great teacher and in this case you get way better feedback on what you are doing and on getting the results. And of course constant positivity which is a big part of the mental approach most all elite players have and use to maintain that focus and high level of play.
Now these 3 players that were part of the Mosconi 8, are all highly knowledgeable players. Elite world class players they could have each added a lot more to the effort, for sure more than most of you are thinking. Mark would have had them working with the players. Prepping them, pumping them up, being in the corner of a very loud arena with a strong local crowd. It would have made our team stronger and that would have helped in my humble opinion.
Mark was on a different trail with a new vision of what is possible. He was trying to accomplish something using new methodologies. I think there are a lot of people on this forum second guessing Mark's choices. I only wish the entire team could have stuck it out, played their roles and overcame their ego's for long enough to give this the max effort. I know they went and did some team building with the Navy Seals, I would like to hear from the Seals and see if some of them ever have to step back take a lesser role and still give 100% to get the job done.
This is a team event not 5 individual players. I think we will see a team and a high level of play from our US Mosconi Team. I think the naysayers will be surprised and I look forward to watching a wonderful event.
USA USA USA
