Klenti Kaci: A Legend in the Making
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I agree. I don't find his slow pace really annoying either, mostly because he has this intense, focussed demeanor around the table, making sure he's making the right choices and also deleting all doubt from his mind before committing to the shot. I really like that.
Right, I agree that a lot of mistakes made by 'faster' pros could have been avoided if they had only slowed down a bit to give themselves a second or two to evaluate their choices and really commit.
I'm not sure about the last two words of your post ('...or watch'), I find it hard to believe that pros care if their game is fun to watch or not. They just want to run the table and nothing else, I'd expect.
If we didnt bread and grow them I don't want them to play under our flag . Don't mind them becoming citizens but you should play under your birth flag if that infact was were you learned the game to advanced levels
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couldn't disagree more
play for the country you reside in, guys like Appleton and Shaw marry American, have American kids, pay American taxes and reside in America
play for the country you reside in, guys like Appleton and Shaw marry American, have American kids, pay American taxes and reside in America
justinb386
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I do not think he plays that slow. I am sure there are much slower pro level players out there.
justinb386
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Will you get his name right....it’s KaÇi
You seem like a very smart person. Do you know how his name is correctly pronounced? The tournament announcer was pronouncing his name like "Catchy". Is that correct?
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yes, justin.
Yeah, that’s pretty close, phonetically, but I asked a man who’s fluent in Albanian...
...he wrote it as ‘Cachy’.
...but keep in mind that there are several dialects in that country...
..so there are probably variations.
..interesting to me is that Albanian and Romanian are closer to the original Latin than
Italian.....I worked for a Romanian years ago.
Well we will agree to disagree on that ,, when we put a team together for the MC I want home grown men on that team not guys who fled here for what ever reasons,
Like the NBA and the NHL, they live here but play for thier home countries in world championships as it should be since there is where they are from and learned their craft
The only reason why we see it any other way is we are not winning with our own stock I'd hate to win anything because we imported a team
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Alex Pagulayan became a Canadian citizen...he enjoys the same rights as one who was
born in Canada...he is one of three Canucks who have one a world title for Canada in the
billiard disciplines....and we’re proud of him.
I think if any immigrant to the USA becomes an American citizen...he should not be denied
a spot on the Mosconi team.
Lol of corse your are , ,, but does he not have duel citizenship, he's won tiles on the Fillipino snooker team
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justinb386
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Yeah, I do not think it would be right if Shaw and Appleton were to play on the US Mosconi cup team. I do not think they would anyways, even if they had that option. Imagine if the entire US Mosconi Cup team were made up of International players, who moved here, and became US Citizens. That would just not look right, and would be a disgrace to the sport of US Pool.
justinb386
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Alex relocated to Canada at a very early age though, right? How old was he when he become a Canadian citizen? I think that in his case, he should be considered a Canadian. I mean if a person is like 2 years old when they become a citizen in a new country, and then continue to reside their for a very long time, then it makes sense to consider them Canadian, or American, or wherever they resided from a very early age. Shaw and Appleton relocated to the US after they became adults, so I do not think it should be the same in their case. They mastered pool in Scotland, and England, so they should only play for their home countries, or continents in my opinion. Alex mastered pool while living in Canada, so in his case, he should be in the Canadian team, or represent Canada when ever possible.
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It makes the most sense to me for players to play for the country of their citizenship regardless of where they were born, or for the country of their permanent residency after X number of years. If someone has dual citizenship, then go by which of the two countries they currently reside in. If they do no reside in either of their countries of citizenship, then go by which of the two that they last resided in. Permanent (not temporary) residents, defined by having lived in country for over X number of years, say 5 or 10, should play for their country of permanent residence. If you are planning to live your life or a significant portion of your life out in a certain country then you have no business playing for your country of citizenship because you have essentially chosen your loyalties by where you have chosen to permanently live. Temporary residents should play for their country of citizenship.
Okay, this is for you and one stroke.
Many immigrants in the last century became citizens of Canada and the USA...
...when our countries went to war in Europe...these same people fought...and some died.
...they also had the same voting rights as natural borns.
..but they wouldn’t have been eligible for a Mosconi team?
But actually, I have bigger fish to fry here...in my post about Pags, autocorrect changed
a word I typed as ‘won’ into ‘one’....:angry:
I think autocorrect is a communist plot...eventually, we won’t be able to communicate...
....it’s the old ‘divide and conquer’ ploy.
That dimwit in North Korea is smarter than I thought.
Some might argue that what you're calling a potential disgrace is, in fact, the story of America and the very source of it's greatness.
Well I can see how someone can compare war with the MC after I smoked a couple joints , first off they get trained to fight by our armed services and that's in a eviorment of win at all costs regardless of wether they are actually citizens or not but I digress
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We have an International coach now, so how long before we add naturalized citizens to our team?
Actually I think in all fairness we should allow all North Americans (like Alex and John Morra) to be members of our team. That alone would even out the odds.
We have an International coach now, so how long before we add naturalized citizens to our team?
Actually I think in all fairness we should allow all North Americans (like Alex and John Morra) to be members of our team. That alone would even out the odds.
Now this I agree with since they have such a larger pool to pick from where pool is actually a game of interest,, but this talk of getting players from other countries to get citizenship to win the MC just leaves a bad taste in my mouth it's saying we concede we can't win with our home grown stock , I hate that defeatists attitude
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We have an International coach now, so how long before we add naturalized citizens to our team?
Actually I think in all fairness we should allow all North Americans (like Alex and John Morra) to be members of our team. That alone would even out the odds.
agreed with Team North America....and from there add in a Team Asia
the Cup in its current form is a joke, the world cup of pool is 10x better, and International Coach is an abomination
none of the pros take the "coaching" seriously, just name Earl coach for life and call it a day