What I remember most of Cisero was his hesitation stroke. You had to see it. Before his last stroke he would pause a bit before letting go.
I played in a straight pool tournament in Los Angeles in the seventies. When my match started he was on a table next to me and he was on a run of sixty something and I got to eighty before he did. I don't know if I played fast or if he played slow. I think it was more that he played slow.
I agree, NO player on their back stroke hesitated as LONG as Ciscero did. Just like NO other player that I've ever seen has the play mechanics of Allen Hopkins. Frank....having watched em play quite a bit at Johnson City, I think Ciscero took at Least 2 second hesitation on Every shot, before pulling the trigger. I always thought that Ciscero musta grew up in the beginning playing in colored pool rooms, why? because sharking was the NORM, usually came on your backswing, and with his hesitation soooooooooo long, the sharkers stopped talking, and That's when he pulled the trigger
. But I heard he grew up watching and learning from the Genie, a great humble player from the depression era, no player during his era had to like it and few came looking, was from and article in the BD.