Analyze This (8)
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AZE said:
Hi AZE. Your beginning pattern makes sense, as the paths are connected. However, your last two balls (the 11 to the 13) are not conducive to continuing a run. Straight pool is all about consistency, and I don't see how you will consistently be able to get perfect on the 11 to then get perfect on the 13.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, the 13 is far from an ideal break ball. In my opinion it's unusable without a key ball in a good spot, which this layout does not offer. The 9 kinda works for this but not perfectly (on top of which this pattern requires shooting the 11 up in the opposite corner). If you were to draw your positional zone for the 13 as a break shot, you'd see how small it was:
The triangle formed with the 3 balls above is approximately the available zone. It being so small, I sure wouldn't want to have to get there from that 11 on the rail.
Also note that the zone is not really near a rail, which makes exact positioning tougher to play for. (This is almost the 9-ball theory, that kicking a ball nearer a rail is easier to visualize and play correctly than one in the middle of the table.)
- Steve
AZE said:
See.... I told ya!
Steve is dead on in his assessment.
I do have one thing to say about some of these layouts... I usually don't get this far into the rack with such a poor pattern of balls... I mean Yeeeeshhh.. and I am sure Pat, Bob, and Steve will agree with me that some of these layout patterns are awful - but occasionally you do have to deal with them.
AZE, like I said to you earlier this morning, 14.1 is all about control and finesse while controlling the cue ball with minimal movement. Steve's pattern explains that quite well, and illustrates that to continue your run - you need to minimize cue ball movement and you need to minimize risks. You always want to have either -
a) a stop shot on your key ball to get to the break ball
b) a simple rail pattern that will get you there easily
Myself, I like my last few balls to be stop shot, stop shot, be on the break ball, sort of like the patter below.
Scroll through- multiple pages)
I know that I won't always have that, but more times than not, I try to follow a consistent pattern such as that - or I try to manufacture these patterns along the way. If I can't get that type of pattern, I always try something that is similar or just as simple - doing so I am able to go from rack to rack to rack.
So if I see this pattern early...
I try to set up for it like this....
(Multiple pages - scroll through)
You just want to keep your cue ball movements simple, so that the patterns are easily executed. The more simple you keep your patterns, the more balls you will run. I know that sounds as if I am "oversimplifying" something that is extremely complicated, but I'm not. Ask any of the 100+, 200+, 300+, and 400+ runners on this forum about that and they will tell you the same exact thing.
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