Shaw outplayed shane...period
shanes break is unbelievable in person
best match ive seen in years
The stats say otherwise. They say that Shane outplayed Shaw on day one, Shaw outplayed Shane on day two to catch up and after he caught up Shane outplayed him to stay ahead to the finish line.
What I think you are saying is that it was ONLY the break that mattered in deciding this match. I think it was a big part of it as it is in all Shane's ten ball matches. Well, the lesson is that putting in hundreds of hours working on your break pays off.
But Shane played great otherwise, coming with tough shots, kicking out of Shaw's safes, playing good safeties of his own, and running out tricky racks. It's not all because of Shane's break. Shane's break to me is the advantage that puts him over an otherwise fairly evenly matched player.
And he earned every bit of that advantage because I would put $100,000 down to bet than no other "western" player has put in as much time on their break as Shane has done...I doubt even Corey has put in that amount of time. He said the longest he put in during one day was 18 hours of working only on the break. Show me any other player with that kind of endurance and focus on the break and I will show you a player known for their consistently great break.