Except it really doesn't have anything to do with what I wrote.Has everything to do with what you wrote, huge pockets or not, you still need to have an idea about how to play 14.1 to string racks together, the POCKETS won't do that for you! Had Ruslan stuck around for a week, you might NOT be talking about Jason Shaw running 714 today!!! Think about THAT!!
In fact, if Ruslan broke the record chances are you wouldn't have even seen Jayson Shaw play at all!
You're talking about theoretical.
I'm talking about reality. SvB did play. Earl did play. Ruslan did play. None of them put up surprising numbers.
If you want to theorize that it was only a matter of time before Ruslan or anyone else made 714 that's nice. You might be right. But it's a theory.
Also, I asked if SVB, Earl or Ruslan had either commented on the table OR congratulated Jayson on the 714. Their opinion would be highly valuable, but I haven't seen them offer it. Did they?
If the pockets are 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9" wide it's a fair debate how fair that is to previous records. But if multiple pros step up and shoot their normal-ish scores and approximately their normal personal bests (plus or minus a statistically reasonable number) and then only one player steps up and dominates the table, how much should I care about the pockets? It's a little like the debate of 7 foot table versus 8, 8.5, 9 or 10 foot table. Easy pocketing vs more clusters, and so on.
Regardless of the pocket size, Jayson was playing unbelievably consistent break ball position. Over and over and over again, great cut angles to open up the rack. About the only thing that varied was whether he broke from the left or right side