Dennis vs Ko (My Review)

[SUPERSTAR]

It's also about who is making the game.
Shane breaks better than Dennis.
Dennis is better after the break than Shane.
Each one would prefer a table that plays to their biggest strengths.
When it's your money on the line, you don't care what the people watching at home think.

Been there, done that

Not that it makes any difference what the public thinks cause none of us were in the box playing for the money.

 

[sjm]

I watched the match on the second day. Dennis was breaking well on that day. To say that Dennis lacks offensive fire power is crazy. I've watched him dismantle world champions on super tight equipment like this.

Definitely not what I said, please reread my post. I think you may have misunderstood me. Of course, Dennis has top five in the world firepower, but I think Ko has more than anybody.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Did you watch the end of the match? I thought that Ko's comeback from 12 down to 2 down was pretty exciting (granted I didn't watch the first two days).

I also couldn't believe how fast Dennis was playing his last 12-15 wins. He picked the pace up dramatically, at times he looked like Earl running around the table, I haven't ever seen him play that pace before in a big match.

I personally would rather watch some one day matches where the races are to 21. I think that is long enough to generally even out the roles and guarantee that the best player on that day wins.

I fell asleep before the very end. But I did see the comeback. I agree, that was very exciting. I was actually hoping Ko would catch Dennis, even though I had bet on Dennis. Simply to make it exciting.

The thing is, in a race to 11 or so, that excitement is always there, because the race is within reach of either player, regardless of their score. But a race to 100, a momentum shift like what we saw, is only exciting at the very end of the match, and, it rarely happens anyway. In the history of the super long sets, we only had it twice to my recollection. Efren coming back on Earl, and Alex coming back on Shane. Ko coming back on Dennis was close.

 

[Celtic]

But 4" pockets make pool the most boring thing to watch.

It is not the table, it is the game.

This table would have been a very interesting battle ground in an 8-ball match.

We are in this weirdo position where people get these super tight tables and then play rotation pool on them on PPV and people say it is boring because there are too many safeties.

Then we get an 8-ball match played on 4.5 inch pockets and the players run out from everywhere and people say 8-ball is too easy and all the runouts make it boring.

This is not rocket science people, think on it for a second, it will come...

 

[Bbutler]

Well stated :clapping:

Great analogy. The cup size is the same in golf....goal size the same in...etc etc
Yet, our pool professionals are constantly pressed to compete not only against each other, but also against varying sizes of pockets.

Let's stick to 4.5" and cheer the run outs.

Lol, the cup is the same size but the course is 7400 yards with rough and greens stimping 12 or 13.

The notion that pro golfers play on tracks even close to those for amateurs is laughable.

And there's a reason for that, because if you put PGA golfers on a short track there's no telling what they'll shoot. That's one of the reasons that the hardest course of the year is pretty much always for the U.S. open, because they are looking to put out the most rigorous test of golf they can. As the USGA says, they're not looking to embarrass the best players in the world, they're looking to find them.

The same goes for pool, when the pressure really gets poured on at the end of a match, that's when the twitching starts, and it's the better player that can hold it together and get the balls in the pockets when the equipment is super tough and any slight flaw leads to a miss. Finding out which player that is is the point of the exercise.

 

[Bbutler]

It is not the table, it is the game.

This table would have been a very interesting battle ground in an 8-ball match.

We are in this weirdo position where people get these super tight tables and then play rotation pool on them on PPV and people say it is boring because there are too many safeties.

Then we get an 8-ball match played on 4.5 inch pockets and the players run out from everywhere and people say 8-ball is too easy and all the runouts make it boring.

This is not rocket science people, think on it for a second, it will come...

Well, 8 ball is boring no matter what it's played on, so there's that.

 

[Cardigan Kid]

Lol, the cup is the same size but the course is 7400 yards with rough and greens stimping 12 or 13.

The notion that pro golfers play on tracks even close to those for amateurs is laughable.

And there's a reason for that, because if you put PGA golfers on a short track there's no telling what they'll shoot. That's one of the reasons that the hardest course of the year is pretty much always for the U.S. open, because they are looking to put out the most rigorous test of golf they can. As the USGA says, they're not looking to embarrass the best players in the world, they're looking to find them.

The same goes for pool, when the pressure really gets poured on at the end of a match, that's when the twitching starts, and it's the better player that can hold it together and get the balls in the pockets when the equipment is super tough and any slight flaw leads to a miss. Finding out which player that is is the point of the exercise.

Making he course more difficult would be the equivalent of changing games in pool, from 8-ball, to 9 or 10-ball. Or even a bigger table, like the Bigfoot challenge. Those elements are enough to create pressure.

But through it all, the pocket size should remain the same.

The goal size in all sports remains the same, except pool.

 

[Bbutler]

Making he course more difficult would be the equivalent of changing games in pool, from 8-ball, to 9 or 10-ball. Or even a bigger table, like the Bigfoot challenge. Those elements are enough to create pressure.

But through it all, the pocket size should remain the same.

The goal size in all sports remains the same, except pool.

No, In pool the pockets are the course.