If a gun was put to your head to choose one player to pocket a difficult shot for you, who would you choose?

hello said:
Same as for Mosconi, it was the straight pool aera where pure shoot making was not a players bread and butter...
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So, successfully executing a perfect safety against an opponent capable of running out at any time doesn’t require as much skill as ball pocketing? Just because he didn’t have to make many difficult shots doesn’t mean he couldn’t.
But, reconsidering the O.P.’s question, I suppose, since the shooter risks nothing himself, I would choose EFREN instead. I’ve watched him, SO very casually (as if the outcome was totally unimportant), make the most impossible shots, and without hesitation.
 
for a thin cut where the ob is located at least a diamond away from the pocket along the short rail and the cue ball in the kitchen i've never seen anyone better than louie roberts

best all around shot maker take your pick of keith, parica, earl, filler, gorst, orcollo
 
Depends are we talking 9 ball or 8 ball pool on US tables or blackball on UK pool table or Chinese 8 ball or even snooker.

My answer would vary every time depending on what cue sport.

If we are talking 9 ball pool then probably Effren, if talking UK pol then could pick number of candidates but Mick Hill or Chris Melling would be up there and as for snooker eother peak Hendry or Ronnie as under pressure both amazingly consistent potters.

Chinese 8 ball then Gareth potts would be in with a shot at his best.
 
It's close between:
  • Filler
  • Shaw
  • Earl
  • Worst (from the stories I've read)
  • Trump
  • Dennis Orcollo
Also, I have an Earl story. One time I was watching a young Earl (21-22) practice before a match. For some unknown reason, he started shooting out of a corner jaw to a ball in the middle of the table exactly straight into the far corner. He was jacking up way more than he needed to and hitting it as hard as a break shot. I don't know why he was doing that. He probably shot that shot 20 times and probably made 17 or 18. It was scary weird to watch someone shoot that hard and that straight while jacked up out of the corner and be that accurate.
 
DynoDan said:
So, successfully executing a perfect safety against an opponent capable of running out at any time doesn’t require as much skill as ball pocketing? Just because he didn’t have to make many difficult shots doesn’t mean he couldn’t.
But, reconsidering the O.P.’s question, I suppose, since the shooter risks nothing himself, I would choose EFREN instead. I’ve watched him, SO very casually (as if the outcome was totally unimportant), make the most impossible shots, and without hesitation.
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Depends on the safety vs. the shot and I wasn't saying that other parts of the game should not be merited but that was not the question.Could Mosconi/Greenleaf make the most difficult long range shots consistenly?We don't know and thats why neither me nor you would have chosen them for the task.

But the question was who is the greatest shotmaker under pressure and Efren is not mentioned among the best ball pocketers,
Parica undoubtedly would be ranked above him and most likely Sigel too.

After Earl, Shaw is the best I've seen.
 
fjk said:
It's close between:
  • Filler
  • Shaw
  • Earl
  • Worst (from the stories I've read)
  • Trump
  • Dennis Orcollo
Also, I have an Earl story. One time I was watching a young Earl (21-22) practice before a match. For some unknown reason, he started shooting out of a corner jaw to a ball in the middle of the table exactly straight into the far corner. He was jacking up way more than he needed to and hitting it as hard as a break shot. I don't know why he was doing that. He probably shot that shot 20 times and probably made 17 or 18. It was scary weird to watch someone shoot that hard and that straight while jacked up out of the corner and be that accurate.
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The Donald plays pool..?Make pocket billiards great again.. :)
 
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