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

smoochie said:
This question has been asked alot, basically if the player makes the ball he'll spare your life, if he misses you're gone.

In this thread you can choose any player from any ERA. The shot is long tough shot.

One thing, just write ONE name, you can't choose multiple, or go "if not this then i'll choose that player instead" JUST ONE NAME, ONE PLAYER.

Also no wall of text explanation, just one name and be done with it, maybe one sentence is fine about the player.
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ME!
 
straightline said:
One of the few who can seriously claim that. How did you and Cole D play? Who was the best challenge in your "junior" years? :D
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Cole was my toughest challenge as a young player! Played him with the call eight for ten a game. I was 16 and he was 18. I had about 600$ in my pocket and he got me 200 loser. I racked balls for a better part of two hours and knew I was in trouble but I was gonna keep playing until I got a legitimate shot lol.

I grew up that day as a player and ran more racks than I knew I could run and actually got even! Put 3-4 racks at a time on him and he got frustrated! He offered to play me even for 20$ and I passed and we both walked! He was the slightly more established niner than me at that time. My game at eighteen yrs old was a little better than his at 18 in my opinion. But when he was near 20 he was a helluva niner!

If we were both in our prime who’s to say who would win a long session. I could blow him away playing one hole (my strength) and probably 3 cushion! But if we played the same all around format of Johnston City I would beat him a lot more times than he would beat me due to he would never win playing 4 out of 7 session at one hole! Race to 11 in nine ball would go either way and 14-1 to 125 I would have a slight edge! And I do mean very slight edge! Cole was a monster!

At 18 years old he couldn’t have won the all around against Lassiter and Ronnie Allen in there prime! I’m the only teenager that I know of that could win that all around against those two! I was a complete player at 18 years old. Not the best player in the world but a monster myself.

Incardona was a tremendous niner but not a oneholer! Heard he was a monster at 17-18 years old. He wasn’t a complete player but I’ve never could have beat at nine ball in his prime! But I would have played him in a Johnston city format and busted him due to I played all games at world class.

I was a better one holer than Lassiter but no other game. I had a 50-50 chance of beating Ronnie at 9 ball and 14-1. But I could beat either Lassiter or Ronnie in one session of nine ball race to 11 or beat either one in a race to 125 one session, that’s how I won the all around.

Back to Cole! I was never a better player than Cole just more complete! But I don’t know of another teenager that could’ve won that all around.

Cole and I became best friends in 1970, he told me to go back to Johnston City and win that All around so I did lol. I worshipped Cole and looked up to him! I would have never played him if I had kept playing!
 
Wow this thread still up the first page haha, let it die dudes but thanks for participating…

My money still on Earl the pearl in his prime. Man he was a monster
 
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