Don’t mind me.
Question for any serious snooker players or fans I suppose.
So the scenario...I can’t remember the exact match now but it was Judward Trump against Ronnie O. Judd made a tough red and brought the cue ball behind the baulk colors just in case. Now he’s got no shot on the colors so he’s gonna play safe. He’s only like 3-4 inches away from the green and straight on. He rolls into it with a little speed to push the green forward a few inches, leaving the cue ball safe but still a few inches behind the color he hit.
Why wouldn’t he try to roll right up close to it? I can understand not freezing to it cuz from what I’ve seen they can just shoot away from the ball when it’s frozen and he could find himself in the same safety he tried to play. I’ve seen this same scenario play out 7-8 times now since I started watching snooker and each time I remember thinking that there was no way they accidentally hit the ball too hard, none looked disappointed in their results and they did get a decent safe, but it seemed like they weren’t trying to totally @#$& their opponent, just mostly.
Is it just tougher to judge than I’m thinking? I’ve never played on that cloth with those smaller balls. Maybe they feel it’s better to hit a little harder just to guarantee the CB doesn’t end up frozen to the color.
First of all, you can only shoot away if you’re frozen to the ball you can legally hit.
If you’re frozen to a color you still have to hit the red ball.
The people that insist on shooting with chin on cue can’t take the chance of rolling up
tight...they don’t have the perspective.
Leave that shot to an English billiard player, they might freeze you...or close enough to
make you shoot backwards...because they stand UP on the shot...they can see the distance
between the two balls.
When I was over there, Rex Williams, a world billiard champion, was welding them to
the ball on a roll up.