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Want less boring pool, how about strictly enforcing a 25 second shot clock, limiting extensions to one PER MATCH and eliminating the jump shot completely. I would keep the alternating break shot to promote interaction between players. Short of these changes I see watching modern day Nine-ball as exciting as watching paint dry. Nineball was meant to be a fast pace game aimed to attract a larger viewing audience, it has become quite the opposite! I know it won't happen, just my preferences.
 
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L.S. Dennis said:
Want less boring pool, how about strictly enforcing a 25 second shot clock, limiting extensions to one PER MATCH and eliminating the jump shot completely. I would keep the alternating break shot to promote interaction between players. Short of these changes I see watching modern day Nine-ball as exciting as watching paint dry. Nineball was meant to be a fast pace game aimed to attract a larger viewing audience, it has become quite the opposite! I know it won't happen, just my preferences.
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I remember Grady once saying "If a player can't make up his/her mind what to do in 25 seconds or so they have no business being at the table. Or something very close to that.
 
Tweak it all you want and pool still suffers from being more of a game than a sport. There are no three pointers. No breakout runs for a touchdown. There's nothing about it that gets people jumping out of their chairs and screaming encouragement. At its most exciting one player pulls away from the other by slowly and methodically walking around a table potting balls until they win, which is when the spectators, assuming there are any, politely clap their approval.

The most exciting thing a non pool playing spectator may appreciate about the game ,a jump shot, is the one thing they want to get rid of.
 
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