IMO, Scott needs to step up and play people on all tables, especially tight ones, with old cloth, etc.... Limiting himself to new cloth and regular pockets is getting to be a joke, frankly.... He's not going to play Justin in Florida because its a tight table. Efren would play any of them tight or not Diamond or not, just sayin.
Excellent analysis by Wayne here. Alex had been playing for nearly a week on these tables BEFORE Scott got there. Scott had all day to warm up on the match table and get the feel of it, but he preferred to sit around and wait, just talking to people. Advantage Alex!
P.S. I've been around this game for five decades and I've seen just about every great player in that time period. I will only say this, there have always been great players at all games in every generation. There has never been a time when we lacked good players to watch. What's most different in this era is the number of top players from overseas. Forty years ago there were virtually no great players who weren't American (although now we know they were already there in the Philippines). Nowadays there are so many good players coming out of Europe and even more in Asia. We still have many excellent players here in the USA, but our dominance in this sport is over.
