Mosconi Day 4 Matches in Progress Coverage

sjm · Dec 4, 2014

Here are the final stats for Team USA, and they tell the obvious story. Justin Hall had a fine Mosconi Cup, and he was the only team member that did. Shane had a nightmare Mosconi Cup, and today, his position play was bad and his kicking was worse. He's still out best and I'm sure he'll find his best game very soon.

As the Brooklyn Dodgers used to say, "wait until next year."

sjm · Dec 4, 2014

Usually, this is where we start hearing Americans complaining about the rolls. The rolls had nothing to do with this drubbing. Europe outplayed us and I'm giving credit where credit is due.

Nostroke · Dec 4, 2014

Should we quit or try again next year? Maybe we can persuade Matchroom to change the format!!.................................................. to baseball!!!

ChicagoJoe · Dec 4, 2014

Colin Colenso said:
He missed it to the pro side, and we need to consider that he had to play it with inside english to avoid the scratch. No easy shot, neither was the cut back bank. Tough shot to have to play, when the balls aren't running for you.

Edit: His contact on the 9-ball was about 0.25mm too thin, I wouldn't call that a ton on a fine cut with inside english.

A lot of world beaters around here if you haven't noticed.

JAM · Dec 4, 2014

Niels Feijen speaks English without an accent. Amazing!

I wish I could speak a second language as fluently as Niels.

Nostroke · Dec 4, 2014

sjm said:
Usually, this is where we start hearing Americans complaining about the rolls. The rolls had nothing to do with this drubbing. Europe outplayed us and I'm giving credit where credit is due.

Yeah but let them race to 125 and see what happens!!:smile:

dnschmidt · Dec 4, 2014

Looks like the three guys that didn't go knew what they were doing doesn't it?

BigNBeefY · Dec 4, 2014

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1. you have to win more than 1 of 16 lags in short races (although it never truly mattered...how many hill/hill matches were there?) to put pressure on your opponent.
2. we must bring our best players. i don't mind hall/bergman and of course svb but the fact that mike dechaine is not on this team is pure politics and rubbish.
3. shane has to lead by example. this was not his best mosconi cup... in fact i think it will go down as his worst.
4. you have to capitalize on mistakes. this was by far the sloppiest mosconi cup that i have personally watched and the US time and time again could not make their opponent pay

the list goes on...its hard to believe that one group of professionals got out lagged 16 to 1 by another group...it should operate more like a coin flip

all sour feelings aside i had a great time watching these matches and can't wait for next year.

Kim Bye · Dec 4, 2014

Nostroke said:
Yeah but let them race to 125 and see what happens!!:smile:

Lets race to 1000 and throw in powerlifting, truckpulling and figureskating - that will show those Eurotards...

Nostroke · Dec 4, 2014

JAM said:
Niels Feijen speaks English without an accent. Amazing!

I wish I could speak a second language as fluently as Niels.

English is pretty much everyone's second language in the Netherlands. 70% of the signs for businesses are in English. Still i give Neils and everyone else that can speak a second language credit. I took 5 years of Spanish and about all i learned how to say was "Yo no hablo Espanol.

Jrene · Dec 4, 2014

FINAL MATCH

Niko 5 Shane 2

the 21th Mosconi Cup stays in Europe one more year

peppersauce · Dec 4, 2014

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Nostroke · Dec 4, 2014

Kim Bye said:
Lets race to 1000 and throw in powerlifting, truckpulling and figureskating - that will show those Eurotards...

I couldnt agree more!!!! The present rules are holding us back!!!!

banditgrrr · Dec 4, 2014

Well, the good news is that they have about 361 days left to prepare for next year.

Quatsch83 · Dec 4, 2014

ChicagoJoe said:
A lot of world beaters around here if you haven't noticed.

If he hadn't missed the 6 ball by a foot earlier, I'd be more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

corpse · Dec 4, 2014

Losing the lag hurts. How many times did Europe break and run the first game? Being behind in a short race adds to the pressure. Either way Europe played better, congrats to them.

MOJOE · Dec 4, 2014

Let's be honest. Europe did not come close to playing their best and still won easily. Not sure what the answer is but we need to figure it out quick. Justin Hall was our only real horse this year in my opinion. I'll root for USA every time, but this was really hard to watch the repeated missed opportunities.

watchez · Dec 4, 2014

lukemindish said:
I agree the commentary they have is absolutely horrible. The american guy that is in the booth right now has been awful the whole tournament. I wish they could put Jim Wych in the booth for every match. He is the best they have.

I'm available for next year. Put Matchroom in touch with me. I will know the score and make the commentary interesting. I will get more calls right than wrong.

12squared · Dec 4, 2014

I think next year we hire Phil Michelson as captain and section the USA team into pods, each with their own co-captain.

richiebalto · Dec 4, 2014

The best pool players in the world should not be playing on 5 inch pockets.

There was some shots hitting the side rail going down and then hitting the other side of the pocket and still going in.

USA would of still been beaten no matter what they played on.

If that match was played on table 1 at running out billiards in Baltimore, Most of these great players would of looked like b players!

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