"I was just freezing the correct balls"
Maybe it wasn't cheating, but this makes it sound like cheating.
He should have said "I was just making sure that at least the required frozen balls were frozen. " Very big difference. It is extremely difficult sometimes to get a perfectly frozen rack. However, sometimes it is not that difficult to get an adequately frozen rack. Most people seem to not know what makes an adequately frozen rack. Those tend to be the people that claim "cheating" and such. Ironically, it also tends to be those same people that claim they don't want to fuss over the rack and waste a lost of time. Ironic that making the rack adequately frozen is precisely done to avoid wasting the time agonizing over the rack to get it perfect. Getting the rack adequately frozen is functionally equivalent to perfectly frozen in most ways. Morally equivalent too. It just takes less time and effort.
Ignorance abounds when it comes to the rack topic.
KMRUNOUT