TheThaiger
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Do you think Alex Higgins would be successful today?
Nobody without perfect cuing is going to make it in snooker. NOBODY. Question is, can an American pool player ever cue perfectly?
Alex Pagulayan going to UK to try pro snooker
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Do you think Alex Higgins would be successful today?
Nobody without perfect cuing is going to make it in snooker. NOBODY. Question is, can an American pool player ever cue perfectly?
TheThaiger
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...Who's really Filipino.
OK guys and gals, since there is so much speculation and both positive and negative posts on this I decided to give Alex a call and invite him on my segment of American Billiard Radio. We did a short interview and recorded it for the show tonight. So if you would like to hear it from the horses mouth and his opinion on his chance, why he is giving this a try and what he says about people who don't think he can do it plus more. Listen to tonight show at www.americanbilliardradio.com
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Back in the day...(here I go with another history lecture) when Willie Hoppe was a household name (and champion of the world) "they" thought it might be interesting to put him up against Greenleaf in a pocket billiard game. Likewise "they" thought it might be interesting to put Greenleaf up against some top notch 3 cushion players. And guess what happened?
World Champion Hoppe got his butt whipped in pocket billiards and World Champion Greenleaf got his butt whipped at 3cush.
That said - if Greenleaf had been raised as 3cushion player and Hoppe a straight pool player, both of them still would have succeeded, because they were natural born shooters, but obviously they didn't take the time and effort to practice more than one style of game. But it certainly doesn't mean that they couldn't have, and it certainly could be argued that a good percentage of the skills required for one game would translate well to another.
Can Alex be a 'top notch' snooker player? If he puts in the work and time, I don't see why not. The only real question (in my mind) is whether or not he is dedicated enough to tolerate the frustration of persistence.
World Champion Hoppe got his butt whipped in pocket billiards and World Champion Greenleaf got his butt whipped at 3cush.
That said - if Greenleaf had been raised as 3cushion player and Hoppe a straight pool player, both of them still would have succeeded, because they were natural born shooters, but obviously they didn't take the time and effort to practice more than one style of game. But it certainly doesn't mean that they couldn't have, and it certainly could be argued that a good percentage of the skills required for one game would translate well to another.
Can Alex be a 'top notch' snooker player? If he puts in the work and time, I don't see why not. The only real question (in my mind) is whether or not he is dedicated enough to tolerate the frustration of persistence.
20 years? That would explain why you missed "the hurricane".
Do you think Alex Higgins would be successful today?
The balls are going in the holes, aren't they? That, I'm pretty sure, is the object of the exercise.
Nobody has perfect cueing. It doesn't exist. All players are flawed to a certain degree. The question is, who can deal with their flaws enough to still get the balls in the hole? Higgins certainly could. Can Pagulayan? It's going to be interesting to find out.
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And the highest break on that table is? Oh.
Pretty sure both Parica and Reyes have run centuries on it.
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If the ball won't even fit between the "points", how on earth is someone supposed to make a ball in there? You surely can't slow roll a ball in, you would have to hit everything hard to compress the cushion in. And, I don't see anyone wanting to play rock'em sock'em pool. ??? (except one person on here that will go unnamed)
TheThaiger
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I would imagine the best Pagulayan can hope for is to play about as well as Alex Higgins did in his prime.
I am certain Alex Higgins in his prime would not trouble today's top 1000 players.
I wish him luck and hope he breaks down doors for others to follow - much like Higgins did, in fact.
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I presume they have some sort of hammer to hand.
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yeah...
I agree. I believe about the best he could hope for is to win 2 world championships with 2 runner ups, 2 doubles championships and 2 world cups...
lol
Jaden
I agree. I believe about the best he could hope for is to win 2 world championships with 2 runner ups, 2 doubles championships and 2 world cups...
lol
Jaden
TheThaiger
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The maximum by the 12 year old Luca Brecel linked earlier in the thread was far more impressive. I don't think many appreciate the level of control needed for top class snooker. Alex P does not have that control. It takes a looong time to develop, and I would suggest it is impossible to develop later in life.
Make regular centuries (many daily) by 12 and you've got a chance. Make one (occasionally) in your mid 30s and forgeddaboutit.
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