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Slow play by pros

Nick8400
skogstokig said:
so is josh filler, soufi, jayson.. not to mention ronnie o'sullivan. what you don't think the slow ones are used to tight pockets? it's not like their practice tables are GCIII's with 5" pockets.

they're slow because they are allowed to be. and they shouldn't be allowed to be.
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Too much is made of the tight pockets. I wonder if the people bashing 4” pockets have spent significant time playing on them. The table plays really fair with cleanish balls and newish felt, even for a chump like me.
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trob said:
For the 100th time.. they are playing on tighter equipment then those older players ever played on and they are doing to pay their bills. Not just to pass the time. Of course they play slow and take their time. No difference then comparing amateur to pro golf.
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so is josh filler, soufi, jayson.. not to mention ronnie o'sullivan. what you don't think the slow ones are used to tight pockets? it's not like their practice tables are GCIII's with 5" pockets.

they're slow because they are allowed to be. and they shouldn't be allowed to be.
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Corey Deuel still good? Fargorate

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BasementDweller said:
Corey's career is a very interesting one. I don't think he was ever among the elite in terms of cueing prowess. What gave him his edge was his creativity and tactical play. In today's game -- the best strikers seem to win everything.
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maybe curiosity killed the cat? he tried to get on the snooker tour for a while, played a lot of one pocket for a while, tried five hundred ways to break the balls, etc. neither are necessary bad for your game, but meanwhile guys like svb and darren popped onto the scene and they had a totally different focus and practice regime than corey who grew up matching up in cash games for practice.

just throwing some theories out there, maybe exaggerated. i personally always liked corey because of his curiosity and creativity.
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Slow play by pros

trob
middleofnowhere said:
I'm watching this tournament Battle of the bull and I'm kind of mystified by the incredible slow play by the professionals. They seem to stand over shots walk back and forth for no reason and take forever to play obvious position play. The more I watch the more it seems to be almost all of the players play with this style now.

Very robotic and actually difficult to watch. I actually turned it off last night. Go ahead and attack me if you want I don't really care but I prefer watching Earl play or Keith or any number of the older players who play the game not frightened to death of everything.
Is this now the new norm that we can expect? Pool playing robots.
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For the 100th time.. they are playing on tighter equipment then those older players ever played on and they are doing to pay their bills. Not just to pass the time. Of course they play slow and take their time. No difference then comparing amateur to pro golf.
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straightline said:
I'm no player but it's no biggie to fire at whatever dead outs come up. Still, even I can figure anybody not in the fast lane better break it down and slow down. You can't fault people for doing it how they do it.
Rather than bitch about clock riding, I propose a master clock like NFL or NBA. Now by shifting the priority to ball total instead of Da Nine or Da Tiyen, players stalling will bomb out instead of clearing their round. You get all the pool minus the nitty BS just for adjusting your sense of style.
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I realize nobody wants to adopt this so by way of taking up my own slack, I see that bombing the match in this format can hurt the opposing player - not much math to play proof the situation. Gotta let this digest for a while.
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Wood over CF shaft options

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AverageTXN said:
I've been playing with CF shafts since I got back into the game last November. While I do like the performance they offer, I find myself missing the feel of wood shafts. I know that Predator has released the Centro shaft with a partial carbon tube in the tip section and that J. Flowers has just released the SMO-W with what I understand is a carbon core covered with wood for the entire length of the shaft.

Are there any other options like these on the market that I should consider?
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Consider this: You start with a wood shaft with a carbon fiber tube buried inside the wood, then you remove the carbon fiber tube and replace it with wood. Guess what? You would have a lower deflection shaft.
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Slow play by pros

markjames
calling the slow players robots
middleofnowhere said:
They seem to stand over shots walk back and forth for no reason and take forever to play obvious position play. The more I watch the more it seems to be almost all of the players play with this style now.

Very robotic and actually difficult to watch.
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i understand what you’re saying,
but doesn’t ‘robotic’ imply efficient and fast?
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Slow play by pros

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maha said:
if you have a shot clock it also slows the game down as players get used to it and take most all the time allowed each shot.
and make that their pace of play instead of quick shooting for most.

no one seems to get it. it is only a handful of players that cause this. deal with them personally.
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I'm no player but it's no biggie to fire at whatever dead outs come up. Still, even I can figure anybody not in the fast lane better break it down and slow down. You can't fault people for doing it how they do it.
Rather than bitch about clock riding, I propose a master clock like NFL or NBA. Now by shifting the priority to ball total instead of Da Nine or Da Tiyen, players stalling will bomb out instead of clearing their round. You get all the pool minus the nitty BS just for adjusting your sense of style.
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