Great shot makers

All I know is that in Johnson City whenever a game was matched up so that you could ask one player to shoot a tough shot for you-------it was always the same two guys.

Eddy Taylor, if it was a bank and Lassier if it was anything else. I never saw them miss.

Bill Stroud
 
Hey Bill...got mhaimi's cue done yet??? He's been patiently waiting...:rolleyes:

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bstroud said:
All I know is that in Johnson City whenever a game was matched up so that you could ask one player to shoot a tough shot for you-------it was always the same two guys.

Eddy Taylor, if it was a bank and Lassier if it was anything else. I never saw them miss.

Bill Stroud
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A Non-American-Shooter: Oliver Ortmann

The story goes that at one night in the eighties, we went down to a club to watch him play. It was after hours, the doors were shut and he was gambling when a few of us arrived. As one of us was a pool room owner, they let us in. One of the younger guys that came with us watched him play and spoke out loud: " So this is Oliver "the Machine" Ortmann? This guy can`t even play position?"

Oliver put his cue down and said: "I will not shoot any other ball until this fellow will leave this room." The young man was removed from the environment rather swiftly and Oliver took his cue up again. WHILE he was shooting, he said to all of us: "As long as you can shoot every ball, what do you need position play for?" He finished the rack, and the next, and the next ... without missing any ball, banking and using angles pretty close to the maximum possible.

Well ... those were the days
 
Earl Strickland,
Ray Martin
Bustamente,
Efren Reyes,
Jeff Carter,
O. Ortmann
R. Souquet

Nowadays i would name several more: J. Schmidt, C. Deuel, Appleton,Melling, Feijen, SvB etc etc
 
gehawe said:
A Non-American-Shooter: Oliver Ortmann

The story goes that at one night in the eighties, we went down to a club to watch him play. It was after hours, the doors were shut and he was gambling when a few of us arrived. As one of us was a pool room owner, they let us in. One of the younger guys that came with us watched him play and spoke out loud: " So this is Oliver "the Machine" Ortmann? This guy can`t even play position?"

Oliver put his cue down and said: "I will not shoot any other ball until this fellow will leave this room." The young man was removed from the environment rather swiftly and Oliver took his cue up again. WHILE he was shooting, he said to all of us: "As long as you can shoot every ball, what do you need position play for?" He finished the rack, and the next, and the next ... without missing any ball, banking and using angles pretty close to the maximum possible.

Well ... those were the days
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Hrrrr--
and there has been for sure some *wanna-be-rocket-science-professors* who really thought he couldn t play for position...... :-)

Must be the only 2 times 14.1 world champion who has no clue about cueball position, rofl ^^

thx for pulling out this old story again pal :-)

lg from germany,

Ingo
 
best shot makers

Check out Ronnie O'Sullivan, and don't forget Dave Matlock.

Each of them can make pretty much any shot that can possibly be made.
 
It was a regular occurrence to match up games where you could get another player to shoot a tough shot for you back then?


bstroud said:
All I know is that in Johnson City whenever a game was matched up so that you could ask one player to shoot a tough shot for you-------it was always the same two guys.

Eddy Taylor, if it was a bank and Lassier if it was anything else. I never saw them miss.

Bill Stroud
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Shotmaker

I'm gonna give you a current one: Chip Compton. I watched him play Gabe payball on an old Brunswick and he treated that table like a loose Valley. Unreal ball-making skills.
 
kaznj said:
Just considering the skill of making shots can you think of players greater than Earl Strickland. I am not considering tournaments won, position play, kicking skill, just pure shot makers.
Some of you old timers who have had the chance to see many players over the years, what do you think?
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Efren,Larry Nevel,Danny Harriman,corey duel,orcullo.
 
Buddy hall was the best posistion player, not shotmaker.

Earl #1

in the late 80s, early 90s, C.J. Wiley was an offensive powerhouse too.
 
CreeDo said:
When I watch pros play, I never notice a guy who is a great shotmaker, because basically they ALL can make really tough cuts. I'm not remotely surprised when any of them drills in a long shot or a thin cut.

In fact... thinking about it, when I hear the term "pure shotmaker", it's almost an insult. To me that implies a guy who isn't a well-rounded player and allowed his cue ball control to take a back seat, and is forced to keep making tough shots in every rack because he can't control whitey.

It'd be easier to track which pros MISS tough shots, than which ones make them consistently.

Despite all that, earl has some gift. Watch him do wing shots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUtd7YisQ-c

I dunno how many other pros can do this but it's pretty sick.
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Back in the days of two shot push out you got to see more shot makers then playing 1 shot. Pool was not as much a defensive game playing two shot.
 
Earl has to be at the top of my list, but St. Louis "Louie" Roberts could rifle in balls from all over the table.
 
Efren without a doubt
Ronnie Alcano
Earl Strickland
Yang
Luat
Gaga Gabica
 
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