I try to give myself the largest target for the cueball resting spot and at least stay on the right er uh proper side of the shot to give a natural angle to position to the next.
Landing the wrong side can leave a shot that requires special sauce on the cueball. Not that I can't apply it, it's just that I prefer Vanilla to Rocky Road.
Yes but imagine that dead out you're on. You can get out opposite hand blindfolded. Over the next 3 or 4 shots that silly millimeter off compounds and you land ok, still in line but, imperceptibly in danger. This shot lies just where the speed lines up with a habitual glitch in your stroke. Now you have a mismatch in power curves and thanks to a couple cushions, get irretrievably outta line.
Is that luck? Are you a dog?
If a tree falls in the forest etc...
