How Would You Play This?

[Old Nine Baller]

Can we see rolling footage of the shot?

The only place I know of is here:

http://www.1vshop.com/Accu-Stats/st...NAME=Darren+Appleton+vs.+Johnny+Archer++(DVD)

With the illustrated cb paths...not sure the balls can get to their places. Particularly the 9ball. Cb coming off the back side of the 9 would semi freeze the 9 or send it down a tangent line towards the spot area.

Drawing lines is not an exact science. The 9 caromed off the 7 into the siderail and then out.

Thanks to OP for the good topic.

I believe the CB had lots of left and little if any draw. Any significant amount of draw and you don't contact the 8 full enough to move it where it went.

To my eyes, the CB makes these collisions: 5, 8, 9, rail, 9. Cueball hit the 9 one time.

-Andrew

I watched the shot again and I also now think it had more left-spin than heavy draw.

ONB

 

[Hits 'em Hard]

I watched the shot again and I also now think it had more left-spin than heavy draw.

ONB

He had to use some draw because no amount of left can spin you back like that. Remember the angle he's shooting into the 5 at. Then after two caroms and a rail it came out at that angle? With as much left as you say, he would of missed the 9 coming off the 8 and would have had the cue ball catch the 9 coming off the rail instead. He used far more draw than left, and he didn't hit much draw either.

Satori you think I'm using those words incorrectly? I don't know how fast the table is, so I couldn't speak in exacts. I know how the balls will collide, and the angles off that. What I don't know is how easily the balls would roll out. What I do know is that playdoubles didn't hit the shot hard enough to ensure the cue ball came out properly.

 

[(((Satori)))]

I just think he had a good idea of how the balls would react but even a slight difference in thickness of hit on the nine and the outcome is going to be different. Low left gave him the best chances in multiple scenarios.

There are shots where your position is key but in this shot I think his focus was simply on pocketing the five and going into the cluster without exact precision but more of an estimate.