Shane is a great player, but I don't think he is the best ever. Everybody is entitled to his own opinion though. He definitely has one of the best breaks ever and can run out very consistently. However, there are better shot makers and strategic players. Shane makes up for these relative deficits via power game.
How will you defend SVB this time?
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Shane is a great player, but I don't think he is the best ever. Everybody is entitled to his own opinion though. He definitely has one of the best breaks ever and can run out very consistently. However, there are better shot makers and strategic players. Shane makes up for these relative deficits via power game.
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Bingo, right on the money Jay. :thumbup2:
Yeah but race to 112 and daz has him beat (yawn)
Short races funny things happen. Long races the best player wins....
lolololol:d
You don't judge people based on losses.
You judge them based on wins.
Losses don't mean anything, every pool player on earth loses.
But very few win the titles these players have won.
You can lose to Darren 8-3 also.
That doesn't mean you're the equal of SVB.
You judge them based on wins.
Losses don't mean anything, every pool player on earth loses.
But very few win the titles these players have won.
You can lose to Darren 8-3 also.
That doesn't mean you're the equal of SVB.
its on facebook, SVB and Darrens I believe
Phew, eh?
you're pathetic
I disagree with you.If you are one of the best players in
the world,you must be able to adapt to any format not just marathon races.
To me,the best player in the world in 9 ball, is whoever wins the World title.
Or 10 ball would be the World 10 ball title and so on.
I've always believed titles hold merit no matter what the race is.
Gambling to me doesn't prove anything in the way of determining the best.
I've heard people say,playing for the big bucks will determine the best player,
to see if they can take the heat.
For me personally, winning World titles and titles in general is the true
definition of playing under the gun.
Except playing in a single elimination/short race format isn't something you can adapt too. You can't change variance. You either get good rolls or you don't.
The whole point of playing longer races is so that both players will have their fair share of good and bad rolls.
I still scoff at your claims.
Ask Daz if he wants to get in the box with Shane on any Diamond or Brunswick 9 footer. Race to 100 for ten thousand.
Anyone at their level can win or lose a race to 8.
It's called rolls. Whoever gets the rolls wins the match.
We always used 30 games as the mark for evening out the rolls
That's right, the Mosconi Cup is a race to 5 which is certainly not any kind of test of skill.
A race to 8 is better, but just barely.
We always used 30 games as the mark for evening out the rolls and proving who's actually a "better player" that week.......so a race to 30 would be ideal, however, in a race to 15 the games are going to be close enough to 30 total - even with luck leaning one way racing to 15 is enough make it a skillful test.
Any race under a race to 15 is not going to even out the luck element. On Real ESPN Matches we always played to a lesser number, but the pressure was much higher playing in front of millions of people.
That's right, the Mosconi Cup is a race to 5 which is certainly not any kind of test of skill.
A race to 8 is better, but just barely.
We always used 30 games as the mark for evening out the rolls and proving who's actually a "better player" that week.......so a race to 30 would be ideal, however, in a race to 15 the games are going to be close enough to 30 total - even with luck leaning one way racing to 15 is enough make it a skillful test.
Any race under a race to 15 is not going to even out the luck element. On Real ESPN Matches we always played to a lesser number, but the pressure was much higher playing in front of millions of people.
Actually the Mosconi Cup is many Races to Five, first one to win eleven! So they are in effect playing 11 out of 21 Races to Five, a pretty damn good test of skill and NERVES! I will contend that this is a very good test of who has the superior team. No question that the USA dominated for many years and now the tables are turned. I find it also interesting that when the USA dominated these matches, they had the best players in the world on their teams. Sigel, Rempe, Varner, Hopkins, Strickland, Davenport etc. These were the same guys who were winning championships back then. And now that Europe has become dominant in the Cup, they have some of the best players in the world on their teams. Mika, Ralf, Darren, Thorsten, Karl, Niels etc. These guys are consistent winners worldwide! You think that's just a coincidence? Well I don't!
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