How does CTE negate CIT (cut induced throw)?
Answer: With a "slight overcut", which works on most shots. For stun shots the ob needs to be close to the pocket, within a couple of feet. Stunning a ball from farther out relies on player experience to tweak the shot so that stun won't push the ob too far off line.
If you set up a halfball shot at least half table out from a corner pocket, and then use the same aiming reference to shoot it once with a rolling cb and once with a stun shot, one of the two shots will miss the pocket. It doesn't matter if the aiming reference is ghostball, fractional, contact point, or CTE perception. The difference between the two resulting shot angles will be more than the acceptable margin of error at the pocket.
The stun shot will hit the pocket if your aiming reference is an overcut away from the pocket. But a simple rolling cb will then cause the ob to be overcut too much. And if your reference aim is setup for the rolling cb shot to work, the stun shot will cause the ob to go too fat and miss the pocket.
Sure, if the ob is only a couple of feet from the pocket then both shots will go in. If the shot is aligned such that a rolling cb sends the ob to center pocket, then the stun shot will go in a couple of degrees left or right of center pocket, depending on whether or not it's a left or right cut. If the shot is aligned with an overcut to allow the stun shot to hit center pocket, then the rolling cb will overcut the ob left or right of center pocket by a couple of degrees. Increase the distance to the pocket, however, and a couple of degrees isn't a tight enough window to allow both shots to work by using the same aiming reference.
An experienced player realizes this and knows how to make it work with a little spin or slight aiming adjustment, regardless of the specific aiming method/reference being used.
