Danny Basavich Kid Delicious Hussle

shinyballs said:
This is the biggest bunch of b.s. I've seen in a long time.
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Not really...exaggerated for cold pizza a little sure..Im glad he did, but don't think Delicious didn't travel the country first and beat just about everybody if not everybody he played before he got serious about tournaments.
 
I looked at the tournament winnings for 2004. He was about $60,000 short of his $95,000. I also don't remember him being close to number 1 in the world. I guess that was part of the hussle to get an interview. His tournament winnings were about 1/3... wonder if the road money was the same? $66,000 instead of $200,000. Maybe we have a new fats... we just need the new Mosconi.
 
Hustle? HA

The only thing Kid Delicious could hustle with that BS is his way around the buffet.
 
I have seen many stories posted here about him (road stories). Maybe he isn't the hustler told in these stories. Any first hand experience from AZ members?
 
I took Danny a few places back many years ago when he lost alot of weight.We went a few places in Tenn. and alabama.We made several K together.I remember he talked about other scores but I can`t remember them.To many years ago.
 
He came through Tyler, Texas a little over a year ago and played at Click's. He was offering the 6, the last two, and the breaks to anyone. I don't know how he finished.
 
Mike...Exaggerated quite a bit, imo. Although Danny is an excellent player, the only "number one in the world" ranking he held, was in his own world...:rolleyes:

Scott Lee
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sydbarret said:
Not really...exaggerated for cold pizza a little sure..Im glad he did, but don't think Delicious didn't travel the country first and beat just about everybody if not everybody he played before he got serious about tournaments.
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Jason Robichaud said:
I have seen many stories posted here about him (road stories). Maybe he isn't the hustler told in these stories. Any first hand experience from AZ members?
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Danny was a natural, true blue hustler.... He is every bit the hustler Wertheim portays him to be, if not more. Seen it with my own eyes.

And for the buffet comment "Grumpy" made.... It's really classy how every time Dannys name is mentioned here, someone always has to make a fat joke. Everyone wants to know why pros don't post here more often (or at all) and this is a perfect example.....

Scott Lee and everyone that wants to crack on the #1 in the world thing.... After he won the Joss Tour Chamionship he was ranked #1 by Billiards Digest and/or Pool & Billiard then and for a few months after. IRRC, he was ranked #1 by Charlies Pro Tour for a while as well.... So it's not a fictional title created by Danny or Wertheim. With the state of mens pro pool and all of the self proclaimed keepers of the games rankings, which source is most credible and whos list is best? Ask ten different people and get ten different answers. It may have been overplayed but it is factual.... Tell me, what Americans had the best of it playing Danny 9-ball back at that time? Johnny Archer and Corey were it, and they didn't have to like it.... Was Danny the best player in the world? No. Was he one of the best in the world? Yes.
 
The Saw said:
Danny was a natural, true blue hustler.... He is every bit the hustler Wertheim portays him to be, if not more. Seen it with my own eyes.

And for the buffet comment "Grumpy" made.... It's really classy how every time Dannys name is mentioned here, someone always has to make a fat joke. Everyone wants to know why pros don't post here more often (or at all) and this is a perfect example.....

Scott Lee and everyone that wants to crack on the #1 in the world thing.... After he won the Joss Tour Chamionship he was ranked #1 by Billiards Digest and/or Pool & Billiard then and for a few months after. IRRC, he was ranked #1 by Charlies Pro Tour for a while as well.... So it's not a fictional title created by Danny or Wertheim. With the state of mens pro pool and all of the self proclaimed keepers of the games rankings, which source is most credible and whos list is best? Ask ten different people and get ten different answers. It may have been overplayed but it is factual.... Tell me, what Americans had the best of it playing Danny 9-ball back at that time? Johnny Archer and Corey were it, and they didn't have to like it.... Was Danny the best player in the world? No. Was he one of the best in the world? Yes.
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you go saw.
 
That's the fastest I have ever seen Basavich play - it must have killed him to change his style for TV and make that many balls in 5 minutes.
 
How is Danny doing? I have not seen or heard his name in the pool world for a while. I met him at the SBE last year and he seemed like a really nice guy.
 
The only time I personally witnessed Basavich matching up was when he came through the Midwest looking for action several years back. He got a 7 for $50 game with a local shortstop, and they played three or four days in a row with Basavich coming out I think $6,500 ahead, although I think the bet may have been raised to $100 a set at some point in there. Danny had already beaten another (better) player in the area, but, although word had gotten around, this other guy played him even anyway. He never won a single set that I know of and never asked for weight. :eek: I think Danny mentioned the match in his SI interview.

Danny was on the stall for a while, but then he seemed to get the feeling that his fish had too much pride to pull up any time soon, so he started letting it out a bit. Seemed like each set would go the same way; Danny would let the guy get to 5 games, but at that point he would bear down and do whatever was necessary to win the set. That's not to say that Danny could have prevented this guy from running out the set, or at least the last 3 or 4 racks, which he was more than capable of, but it just never seemed to happen that way. This local player may have been a sucker and an idiot, but he still played very strong and played well for the cash, so while Danny didn't have to do much hustling to make the score, the way he was able to walk into a foreign room, grab a cue off the wall, and proceed to just toy with a strong player the way a cat toys with a mouse before eating it proved to me that he had a very, very high gear.

One other thing of note is that Danny played much more quickly when he was here than I have ever seen him play in a tournament. I would say his pace around the table was medium to medium-fast - drastically different from the snail's pace we've all seen on tv. Perhaps it was just because the stakes were so low and that was part of his stall, I don't know.

Anyway, he was definitely fun to watch, and, great hustler or not, he is for sure an extremely talented player.

Aaron
 
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