How do you get down?
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My memory of Cole's wide spread legs leads me to favoring a wide stance which helps relieve the lower back. Billy Incardona might have had the widest stance that I have seen.
My entry to the stance compares to cranking the auger.
Slow too. 
My entry to the stance compares to cranking the auger.
Slow too. 
It may not be very important for the top players, but beginners and even intermediate players may be helped with adjusting their stance. I look for as many different ideas as I can to try to get new players into a comfortable stance for them since the body motions needed for poor are so new and awkward feeling to them. Some topics are definitely prone to over-thinking, like "what is the best tip", but mechanics can be so varied but work the same I think there should be several options to learn from.
over complicating doesnt help any level of player
Not making it more complicated, I think it's seeing more options as to how you can stand. It is a pretty complex motion, not as bad as a golf swing because there is no body movement, but a lot of factors are involved to get a good stance to allow a straight stroke. When you break down the pool stance and stroke, there are a lot of parts that need to work together, we just don't think about it after a year or more of shooting 4 times a week. Things that are almost instinctive to experienced people need to be broken down in chunks and explained to beginners as steps. You can't just say "bend over and move your arm", you need to place the feet just so, your torso just so, your wrist not wiggly, your shoulder and arm aligned, your eyes and head in a certain place, etc... if those are not all correct for the person, they will be missing or having trouble down the line with being more precise for high level play.