Recent content by BasementDweller

One of the things I think many of us get wrong about top players, is how long they actually improve. Yes, there are those like Filler and Gorst that come out of the gate -- playing close to their peak, but others get better and better, inch by inch for years. This gets lost in the shuffle...

I think you should be banned. Not permanently, but at least for a week. What are you going to suggest next, gray cloth? Oh wait...

That's the exact sort of comments they need to be making. An actual "sideline reporter" type interview with Stu in between racks would make sense as well. Matchroom has figured quite a bit of this out, but not all of it yet.

So many things in pool make sense intuitively, but do they really bring about improved performance when we focus on them? Focusing on eye dominance, or your vision center makes sense as a standard practice, especially if you're just starting out, but where's the actual evidence that focusing on...

I like all the lies already mentioned, but one of my favorite bathroom conversations, when running into a buddy goes something like this: (As you're washing your hands) You: Are you still in the tourney? Him: Man, you're not going to believe what just happened to me. You: (Preparing yourself)...

I would question if they even have a full sheet worth of information on most of their players, as I rarely hear anything interesting about any of them during the broadcasts other than they won this or that.

No. The baseball and football stadiums are all different. Those games intrinsically have more variety from one game to the next. The teams are composed differently. Just the weather alone brings about more variety than found in pool. I'm considering this from the view of a casual sports fan...

While your situation is more extreme, I've thought for quite some time that all the eye dominance / visual perception stuff -- was a bit overblown. What would happen if most players just focused on having the exact same alignment every time, regardless of their vision? While this is just a...

I'm not really living in the past either. I do think the older matches have more life in them. I think it's western culture actually. I think a lot of commentary in all sports has gotten so vanilla because everyone is afraid to say the wrong thing. Listening to a more free broadcast is...

You're right about their uniformity. It's starting to look like the same tourney over and over again, just at a different place. Matchroom does seem to have a road map though with their team events, WC of Pool, and the Premiere League. The only thing they are missing is star power. They figured...

Maybe someone can help me out... I don't like slow play but the players, prior to say Ralph Souquet -- didn't bother me. Nick Varner could be slow, but it didn't bother me watching him then, and I still enjoy watching his old matches now. Sigel could really milk the clock at times. I actually...

I don't mind the 30 second clock, but it doesn't come without tradeoffs. Maybe just allow more timeouts as there is a loss of drama when the game just continually marches along. Maybe other sports are just spoiled with good commentary compared to ours, but good commentators use the time between...

Biado has had an impressive, while still a bit perplexing career. I don't think he has ever been the top Filipino player, but yet he has become one of the top Filipino tourney performers. His technique is a little wonky, with his shoulder over the shot line, but he makes it work. In my mind...

Another ridiculously fast table from back in the 80's.

How hard do you think he can break? His 10 ball break is comfortably right around 23mph. You can tell he's not even close to his maximum capability, so I wouldn't bet against him being able to hit 30.