SJM at the Las Vegas Open

StrokeofLuck said:
Right, that's my point. Without that and just trying to get by on tournament cashes she'd have been back home a long time ago.
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Sports in general is getting so crazy. I'm struggling with regret due to all the time I spent with my kids on sports. Even with the best of intentions, we've been surrounded with - mainly parents that had some far off dream of some college scholarship, that 90 percent of them don't end up pursuing OR even need to begin with because they are wealthy. I sniffed out this same sort of mindset with many of the younger up and coming pool players. The one thing they always have in common -- is they put the cart before the horse and treat the kid as a social media star and just expect they'll get to the finish line eventually. Most don't have the actual drive. I find a lot of it obnoxious, but I'm getting old and these kids are getting close to my lawn.
 
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Kris_b1104 said:
Some of you are being a little harsh on a 16 year old girl who's prefrontal cortex has not even fully developed yet.

Obviously she needs to work on her mannerism and body language when losing, but that will come with time, which she has a lot of.

Being mad that she is being monetized by her parents is asinine. You want all pool players to end up broke like Johnny Archer and can't even pay someone back when they lose a bet?

I wish most pros got into selling merch and took advantage of their likeness, instead of depending on tournament winnings to get by and survive. This is why I don't get offended by Fedor treating it like a business, he's setting himself up for the future and making sure he has money to fall back on if he's having a bad year on the pool table. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

It's not like they're overdoing the merch either, on Easton's website, she is only selling Taom products and 3seconds gloves, which she is sponsored by. They are not trying to rip people off by creating an $800 shaft just because they have the name to do so. Her parents are also not begging for handouts and asking for donations.

You guys should want pool players to succeed financially, on and off the table, considering how dirt cheap they get paid for all their travel expenses/entry fees/hard work. Most pool pros of the past have ended up broke due to poor financial decisions or only relying on tournament/sponsorship money. If they had invested in themselves, they would be in a much better situation.

Hopefully Savannah's skills/abilities will catch up to her fame and even surpass it. I'm sure it will.

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This is fair, but do you not notice who you just compared her to? In a way, you're sort of proving our point.
 
middleofnowhere said:
You have seen Savannah play in person. Does she come across in person like in tv? She literally seems unlikable. The other night she started a match and didn't make a ball on the break.

She snatched up her chalk and stomped off with shoulders down and angry face. The GD match had not even started yet and she had an attitude.
Is this what she is really like? It is certainly how she comes across.
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I've seen her play in person last month in Vegas and online, and she acts about the same. It seems to me that she needs a coach that would get her out of rhythm player mode and move her away from pure tactical play and into the strategic mode. From what I've read she has been a standout student athlete so she is likely accustomed to fast play. Fast play can work well but it has to be grounded.
 
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