'10 Mosconi Final Match is up on YouTube

I watched 2010 in High Def so i don't need it but i did download 2009 and 2008 from youtube. Quality is watchable but not great

I wish they were torrented with better quality
 
Has anybody recorded it on HD from a TV Station :confused:
I would love TO BUY it on DVD from somebody who has it recorded.
Not only the 2010 Cup, even the 2009, 2008 and older ones, too.

But I don´t want it in STREAM or YOU TUBE QUALITY - I need good TV quality :confused:

Send me a PM if you have something for me :smile:

Eric"h"
 
shinobi said:
Corey couldn't buy a ball on the break to save his life.
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We had threads on it. For all the hype of his amazing break it is IMO one of the weakest parts of his game. Most of the time he loses it is when he gets gimmicky on the break and it fails him while his opponent simply keeping it simple and not trying to get fancy has effective results from the break and beats him.

Not sure if it was 2009 or 2008 but Corey had one Mosconi Cup where I am not sure if he had control of the table even 20% of the time after his break. He had illegal breaks and/or did not make balls almost the whole tournament long. And the saddest thing is he would not change what he was doing. He just kept banging his head against the wall trying the same thing and expecting different results.
 
Celtic, I agree with you except that the hype about Corey's has been in regards to his perfecting the soft break prior to all these restrictions (3 balls past the head string, break box, 9 on the spot, etc.) to keep him from hitting his most effective break. Given the 3 balls past the head string rule and 9 ball on the spot as used in the Mosconi Cup I don't know why anyone would think Corey has a better break than anyone else. In fact it appears Corey's break has room for improvement under these rules. But I do think there was a period in time prior to these restrictive rules, that Corey had come up with one of the best breaks among the top pros, enough so that others began to copy it.
 
DogsPlayingPool said:
In fact it appears Corey's break has room for improvement under these rules. But I do think there was a period in time prior to these restrictive rules, that Corey had come up with one of the best breaks among the top pros, enough so that others began to copy it.
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Thing is I have a video of Corey playing against John Horsfall in the Sands Open back before Corey won the US-Open and when Corey was young he had a sledgehammer break, I dont mean a "fairly hard" break, I mean he hit them as hard as any pro today and with control.

Corey has all the power in the world on the break if he chooses to use it. Instead he messes around with goofy crap.

If one takes a look at some of the most successful players in the game you will see they are mostly doing it with big breaks. Bustamente, SVB, Pagulayan, Archer's glory days, Strickland's glory days, Wu, the top players in the world tend to get there with hard controlled breaks.

The trick breakers? Corey is probably the best of them, and his record since the US Open win has been a step below his shooting skill IMO. If Corey had stuck to a powerful break I am guessing he would have won more major events then he did. Trick breaks are finnicky, the smallest thing can screw them up and one match is all it takes in the WPC and the like. The big breaks are far less finnicky and give their users more of a chance to go through the events without a hitch.
 
Celtic said:
Thing is I have a video of Corey playing against John Horsfall in the Sands Open back before Corey won the US-Open and when Corey was young he had a sledgehammer break, I dont mean a "fairly hard" break, I mean he hit them as hard as any pro today and with control.

Corey has all the power in the world on the break if he chooses to use it. Instead he messes around with goofy crap.

If one takes a look at some of the most successful players in the game you will see they are mostly doing it with big breaks. Bustamente, SVB, Pagulayan, Archer's glory days, Strickland's glory days, Wu, the top players in the world tend to get there with hard controlled breaks.

The trick breakers? Corey is probably the best of them, and his record since the US Open win has been a step below his shooting skill IMO. If Corey had stuck to a powerful break I am guessing he would have won more major events then he did. Trick breaks are finnicky, the smallest thing can screw them up and one match is all it takes in the WPC and the like. The big breaks are far less finnicky and give their users more of a chance to go through the events without a hitch.
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Well, I don't disagree with you. I personally never did care for the soft break and still don't. And it does seem that historically the most successful players, the ones who have dominated so to speak, have used a power break. I was only saying that the hype about Corey's soft break was not born out of playing under the breaking restrictions that have been instituted.
 
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