Nice video. It's a close choice for sure.

Respectfully, I disagree with one aspect of your analysis. Some of the results that you deem acceptable off the slowish one rail kick may not leave a good shot but leave a two-way bank shot. To me, one part of the gospel of tactical play is to avoid leaving two-way shots of any kind at all costs. Leaving one, to me, is, practically selling out.

Still, most of your analysis is dead on. If I'm going one rail here, I'm never going soft. My intent would be to send the 7ball to the top rail if at all possible. It requires neither a soft nor hard hit, just a medium speed hit. Going three is reasonable, increasing the risk/reward nature of the shot.

Hence, I think it's a very close choice between a medium speed one railer and the three railer with intention to pocket the ball. We don't know whether this type of three-rail kick is something Josh practices, so we can't be certain of what the right play here was for him.

Josh' choice was reasonable, but there are arguments for the one-railer. I do not believe that the score was a factor in Josh' choice. As Nick Varner once said: "every rack is a race to one." Josh surely felt that the three-railer was his best path to winning that rack.

Chopdoc said:

You talk like humans woke up one day able to do those things thousands of years ago. Even simple tools took a very long time to develop.

If our modern technology were taken away tomorrow we would develope and use simple technologies and tools MUCH faster than originally by those thousands of years ago. In fact, most of it still exists anyway.

Their technical abilities accumulated over time just like ours. We are currently developing much faster than ancient humans did or even could.

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Technology is developing faster than ever.

Truthfully, the first thing I did was to check the end of the match to see who won. I think using time to contemplate the situation was big.

Still undecided as to Filler's motivation for the shot but on that, there may be a variety of reasons to try it - not the least of which is to test the table.

Bob Jewett said:

In a previous thread, there was a video of a very, very wet table and a shop vac.

I suppose the pumice or whatever is in Lava soap could be a worry, but vacuuming after complete drying ought to fix that.

Did the cloth get looser after the wash?

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No. That was not my video. Our table was relatively wet, but not wet enough to use a shop vac, just a fan set at the end of the table which dried it up in about 4-5 hours.

Oh my, well if the Shortstop on Pool says you must have a pause then that changes everything. I guess I’ll just have to reconstruct my entire stroke, F*ckouttahere

GoldCrown said:

Not sure why people still think he is the go-to. He does not communicate. Does not deliver. Poor excuses at best.

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He did tell me it sometimes takes a few weeks after customs. Was hoping that wasn't the case. He was optimistic they would arrive in a few days.

Not making excuses, he knows

I can’t view your video. Perhaps upload it to YouTube then post a link.