9-Ball And Earl Through British Eyes

pretty normal (good) strickland run. He looks less scary cleanshaven.
Seemed halfway cheerful and friendly too.
 
Break shot

Their commentary is interesting. It just recently occurred to me, from watching another Earl video (I think he was playing Tony Ellin on ESPN), that the break shot most often is in fact a jump shot. These announcers, although they may not watch that much pool, have picked up on that. One announcer says, if I heard him right, that there is even a spot on the table 1/2 way or so between the spot and the string line, where the cue ball tends to land on its way to the rack on a jump shot. That's pretty insightful.
 
I can't believe the uploader has a collection of games from 1999 WPC but he
doesn't have the classic encounter of Efren Reyes against Jimmy White! :eek:
That one is definitely a must see for all you folks out there!
 
gopi-1 said:
I can't believe the uploader has a collection of games from 1999 WPC but he
doesn't have the classic encounter of Efren Reyes against Jimmy White! :eek:
That one is definitely a must see for all you folks out there!

Bcos Earl is better.:D
 
Almost every shot is a jump shot. Try this, put a quarter on the table an inch or so in front of the cue ball and try to make the cue ball hit the quarter. Unless you hit it very, very softly, the cue ball will jump over the quarter every time, low, high, or center ball.
 
Interesting, you can see his eye pattern on the shot around 1:45, it looks like he's going back and forth during his warm-up strokes before locking on the OB.
 
Typical Earl-bashing...

crap. Earl is actually being self-deprecating and berating himself for hitting the ball "too good". He missed position and these insightful announcers didn't pick up on that. Just took a chance to take a cheap shot at Earl.

Typical.

MM
 
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