Lou, if you don't know, just say you don't know. :thumbup:
School me, Jay.
Here's your explanation:
I love JJ's commentary! In layman's terms he is saying the object ball is rolling smoothly toward the pocket with the forward spin helping pocket the ball. Skyler hits the ball with a very smooth stroke that allows the object ball to turn over in the direction of the pocket and not a punchy stroke that might make the object ball hop a little after contact or get off line.
So, a few things:
First, of course the OB is rolling smoothly towards the pocket with forward spin, duh.
Second, even if the ball hopped a little, on that shot, at that distance from the pocket, so what? After it hopped around the second diamond and rolled the rest of the table, it's still going to be rolling.
Third, guess what? He did hit it off line and hits the rail at least half a diamond in front of the pocket.
So fourth, hitting the rail before the pocket means that the OB will have rail induced spin on it and will not be rolling with pure forward spin.
So again, explain it to me.
Lou Figueroa