Rory has gotten slower from what I saw at Secos.
Haven't played Greg in a few years but he was sloooow last time I did.
Slowest pro players?
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Haven't played Greg in a few years but he was sloooow last time I did.
weird thing is, i don't think it would be that different. they can usually play good enough within 30 sec, they just choose not to
Perhaps Greg, a really nice guy off the table, has sped up. Even Dick Lane sped up a little in the latter part of his career, so it is possible.
Still, if you want the lowdown on Greg's pace of play, ask Buddy Hall. In a Pro Billiard Tour match in New Jersey circa 1997, Buddy called a referee over to issue a slow play warning to Greg twice in the same rack. I've rarely seen Buddy lose his cool, but he just about lost it on this occasion.
I just cannot say whether Greg was slower than guys like Frank Taberski and Frank McGown, both of them exceptional players, who were known for slow play in the straight pool era.
Lou, who I saw live many times, was the fastest player in the straight pool era and is still the fastest ever among BCA Hall of Fame players.
Still, he was probably not as fast as Steve "Stevie Wonder" Dobrowolski (lived near Philadelphia, PA), and not even close to as fast as Tony Drago of Malta or Luc Salvas of Canada.
I once saw Tony Drago, the fastest of all of them, win a race to 9 over Fu Jianbo (also fast) in 21 minutes in about 2007, but the most amazing thing was that the score was 9-6! Surely, it took five minutes to rack the balls fifteen times, so the average pace of play was one minute per rack.
I’m shocked nobody hasn’t mentioned this name but HENNESSEE (Jonathan Pinegar) has the stone cold nuts on the slowest player award. No comparison, the stone cold nuts!
At rotation games, Eklent Kaci is probably as slow as Hennessee when the shot clock is off. To be fair, Hennessee may well be the slowest one pocket player in the world.
I saw McGown take eight minutes on one shot at straight pool, and five minutes each on two other shots in the same match.
But that does not hold a candle to Taberski's best. He was in a tough spot. He had an easy safety and some offensive shots with more risk. After 20 minutes of consideration, he turned and shot the safe. The crowd, who knew all along that he was going to shoot the safety, was irritated.
i don't know if he's the slowest but he's definitely the annoyingest
Badpenguin
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Francesco Candela.
I have been watching some of that on YouTube and there are some slow players and matches. I get it to some degree, especially in the 8 ball. I also get it in some particularly tough situations. OTOH, sometimes it seems that after a good, difficult shot, the subsequent simple ones take a long time. I should probably take a little more time on some shots tho. I don’t like watching the super slow matches.
he's up there. among the europeans, dimitri jungo is probably the slowest. he's even slower than ralf.
all the austrians are slow without a shot clock. mario didn't used to be slow but he's become slower, and not better (mario used to be a beast, within two years he won like 5-6 eurotours with tough fields)
Rob and that guy from Canada play real quick. I feel like playing so fast cost the Canadian some racks. Jesse is always deliberate. Depending on what shakes out after the break 8 ball can be slow by nature.
Oikawa
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Why? You can be deliberate without being painfully slow. If someone uses the word deliberate to refer to a painfully slow player, being deliberate isn't the issue.
It's a complete joke, taking 2 mins per shot isn't doing anything except showing what kind of idiot asshole they are.
Bunch of clowns doing clown
Flakeandrun
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Every so often, in high pressure situations, I understand the need to deliberate on a shot. But I do agree with you.It's a complete joke, taking 2 mins per shot isn't doing anything except showing what kind of idiot asshole they are.
Bunch of clowns doing clown
As great as he is, Orcullo could drive me nuts in the one pocket. A lot of it was getting up and down a million times before shooting. Like if he has 3 or 4 options he will line up on 2 or 3 and get up and down 50 times. Then announcers who try to predict what he is doing add to it. Like when he gets down on one say”He is shooting the 4 railer!” Then he gets up and lines up something else. “No, he is playing the kick bank!!” Then after a while he plays something simple.
Hennessee seemed to play a little better in some of the shot clock one pocket matches.
All of them CAN play faster without playing worse.
Souquet, one of the slower players of the modern era, never dipped when the shot clock was turned on and Kaci can also play his top speed on the clock.
As I've noted before, however, if you give pool players all day to shoot, that's how long far too many of them will take.