I know him a little bit....that’s the worst thing I ever seen him do...he not only missed...
...he played it wrong....the shot is high right....ease it in slow...9-ball to the other side.
...looked like he changed his mind and put speed on it to get to middle table.
Those tables are GCIs with the original generous pockets.
Had a buddy play that shot on Souquet...7-2 up,,race to nine...rattled it, lost 9-7.
...that’s what I loved about Efren’s game...he could hit a ball slow under heat.
He took the shot for granted - we’ve all done it before way more than Toby has. It's hard to second guess a player of Toby's level who has successfully run out the last 3 balls of a similar layout likely 99+% of the time, but I agree the 8-ball in the opposite corner would appear to of been the correct play. I’m not quite sure why he was popping it hard enough to get the cue ball back towards the middle of the table to play the eight ball in the same pocket, but obviously that's what he felt most comfortable doing at that moment, and as good as he was playing there was no reason to think that he wouldn't.
Everyone knows as far as shots down the rails, the harder you hit it, the tighter the pocket gets. Because he hit it fat and missed, the cue ball didn’t come out nearly as far as he wanted to anyway. He just had to hit the shot hard enough to get the cue ball slightly off the rail and play the 8 in the opposite corner. To me, this is a great example of a situation where he likely got lazy because of assuming the easy pockets as opposed to if he’d been playing on a tight pocket table, he'd of been far less likely to take the shot for granted.
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