absolutely...
- Ko had good rolls
- Shane faded most of the rolls to be in position to win
- Shane played a soft safety on the ball that Ko tried to jump in the side and eventually got safe
- Thousands of people will say that Shane should have won because Ko got lucky
- Shane will say he needs to continue practicing to ensure he can fade a match like that.
- That is why Shane is a champion and I look forward to watching him win next year's event!
The America haters and Shane haters love to deny reality and say it's all the fanboys, but this ^^^^^^^^^^are my thoughts on it as well.
Could Shane have taken the win even with all the bad rolls??? Yes. There were some situations that could've taken him to the win even with the bad rolls.
Shane's composure and ability to come with it even with all the rolls shows what kind of player he is.
A couple of things that others have already pointed out.
1) How would it have ended if this was a Ko, Earl match??? I cringe at the thought.
2) With the rolls that Ko was getting, it's really surprising that He didn't get more than one game up till the final game. The score should've been lopsided with all those rolls and it wasn't. It's scary to think about what the score would've been had the rolls been reversed. A repeat of his drumming of little Ko and DO would not have been out of the question.
Now did Ko deserve the title? That's a tough call. Did he earn his place in the finals? Absolutely.
Did he EARN that final match? Not really. Did he BEAT SVB? Not really. Did he win the title? Absolutely and that's the way it goes sometimes.
We can say, yeah but it's alternating break, etc etc. but I don't think that would've been in Shane's favor necessarily had it been winner break.
Ko had a higher BNR percentage than Shane by a slight margin. So in that respect he DID deserve the title.
Also, 9 ball is a game with luck involved. So long as that is acknowledged, then yes, he did deserve the win.
Regardless of that final outcome, It would be ****ING RIDICULOUS for the Shane haters to deny he's not as good if not better than anyone on the planet.
To do so is to deny that the rolls made the difference in this match, and that's idiocy not even taking into consideration the mental affect that an opponent getting that many rolls over you in a world championship finals has on you.
Anyone watching this match with an open mind HAD to have seen that it was the rolls that made the difference, just the slopped in nine and the hooked three (the luck that even KO snickered about) games would have given the title to Shane instead, and there were MANY more lucky safes and turned over racks than those two.
My like of Shane's game has ZERO to do with him being American. I've had other American's hate me because Efren was my favorite player and they thought that I should like Earl's game better because he was American.
I like whom I think has the best game and right now, that's Shane. I'd like to be my own favorite player, and maybe some day in the not too distant future I will be.
Jaden
