straightline: "Can you provide the logic behind this?"

... . Did you know that if the object ball is on the point of the side pocket, positioned in such a way it won't go in, there is actually a way to make that ball? ...
As others have already mentioned, that can be done by smashing the ball through the point. (The object ball is frozen to the cushion on the point just far enough down the rail that it looks like it can't be made, and it can't be if you shoot softly.)

This is a very old shot. It appears in Robert Byrne's 1982 "Treasury of Trick Shots". More interesting to one pocket players is a shot he shows on the same page. If a ball is on the point of the corner pocket, so that it looks like you have to cut it, it can be made by shooting straight at it and hard. You might be blocked from the cut or maybe position requires you to come straight back.

There are many interesting and useful shots that require rail compression, where the cue ball or object ball has to go into the cushion for the shot to work. Nearly every frozen ball cut shot uses rail compression.

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