What's your shot?

Neil said:
I don't believe blackballed idea is quite there. Close, but won't work. To hit the 2 thin enough to barely move the 9, the cb will go a lot farther than the two will. So, you can't place the cb where you showed. To get the cb there, you have to hit the 2 either much softer, which means the 2 won't get a rail, or, you have to hit the 2 much fuller to kill the cb, which means the 9 is moving much more than shown.

Good initial idea though. That is one of the things I spent so long looking at.
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See, what also worries me about answering this is that it's a 7-foot table. Against a player like you, I know distance-safeties are never going to work. I would check to see if that 2-9-3 combination goes in the side pocket and if it does, I'd need a great reason not to shoot it. Any safety I play would have to HIDE the 2-ball somehow otherwise, I have to assume I'm gonna get safed right back. I'm curious to see what the final answer is.
 
Nevermind, looks like my solution been discussed:cool:
Looks like the three in the side has a chance due the frozen two/nine and leave a shot in the corner for the two
 
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justadub said:
I like what Black Balled posted. But that seemed too obvious.

Then again, I'm only an APA 5, so I thought I'd better keep quiet. :D
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Yeah, that's the shot I saw whether or not he changed the diagram, just a different hit on the second one. I'm only an APA player, too. :thumbup:

Don't worry about people trying to pee on your parade, it even happens to the really good players. You know, as well, that even they don't agree with each other. Just keep doing your best and you'll be fine. If they don't like it.. well..

I just don't see the point in hitting it hard and hoping for a slop shot over a possible loss of game when there's a better alternative. Especially if that's a diamond or 9', that 9 could just as easily rattle and then you're really up a creek.. not good odds when you just got handed a 2-9 set.
 
Neil said:
... Against HIM, distance meant nothing. ...
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Well, you do know that He makes the ghost sell out?
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Does the kick/carom on the 2 go into the corner?

If not I would try to shoot the CB to the short rail with low english hitting the 2 straight on and stopping it next to the 9.
 
Banks said:
Yeah, that's the shot I saw whether or not he changed the diagram, just a different hit on the second one. I'm only an APA player, too. :thumbup:

Don't worry about people trying to pee on your parade, it even happens to the really good players. You know, as well, that even they don't agree with each other. Just keep doing your best and you'll be fine. If they don't like it.. well..
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I'm really not worried about it, I was just kidding. I think Neil knows this, as well, as I've been an avid supporter of his series of these as long as I've been here on AZB. Thus, the :D

And usually what I "see" as the answer isn't the right one, which I fully expected would be the case today as well. Again, :D:D

And as Jude mentioned, I also look at these while envisioning a 9-foot table, which is all I know. So applying these from a barbox perhaps changes the dynamics a bit, too.

Thanks again for putting these out, Neil.
 
Neil said:
I'm only an average 14.1 player, but for a clue, I will say that my 14.1 knowledge is what enabled me to pull of a safety that won me the game. Try thinking 14.1 and see if you can come up with a solution.
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Heck, with that, all I can guess is that you kicked off the short rail, clipped the 2 and pinned the CB to the 2/rail.
 
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I will give this a shot.

Kick to the side rail with enough speed to get the 2 to the top rail, trying to catch the two thin enough so that the cue also catches the nine after it hits th two. bumping the 9 closer to the 3. Hopefully, the 9 and 3 end up as blockers between the cue and the 2.

In the first post, I can only see the first diagram, so I am going by someone elses post that had the diagram in it that looked like the 2-9-3 was close to being dead in the side. Hope that was the correct diagram.

I like these a lot. I hope you come up with some more. I can't wait for the answer.

Braden
 
Did you try an kick at it for a corner bank to the bottom right corner and hopefully try and hide behind the 8-Ball, if you come up short?
 
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looking at the carom point of the cb and 2 ball. I don't see how it is possible to get the cue, 2 and 3 ball in your final positions. To get the 3 where u show and the cb u would need to hit that 2 alot fuller
 
Neil said:
But, at least I figured I picked the easiest route to achieve success.
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And you executed it perfectly. Now set it up exactly the same and shoot it ten more times. Your success percentage and self honesty using this drill will tell you whether it was really the right shot or if you just made a low percentage shot work. Remember even low percentage choices work perfectly some times.

I'm an APA 3 and me and my buddies would have just blasted the two off the rail and hoped for the nine to find a hole and that the cue ball would stay on the table:)
 
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