Fred:
The slower spin shots where swerve dominates.
This is the only response I've seen that (almost) makes sense to me.
Because swerve doesn't completely overcome squirt in the majority of shots, it isn't really "visible", so we tend to think we're just compensating for squirt. But swerve is a huge component of every sidespin shot and is much more difficult to estimate and compensate for than squirt alone - I think swerve, not squirt, is the biggest challenge in shotmaking, and the least acknowledged.
But reducing squirt (and thereby increasing the net
effect of swerve) still makes the overall
squirve adjustment less complicated, because it doesn't increase the amount of swerve you're dealing with or increase the difficulty of estimating it, but only changes the net amount of adjustment. By reducing one of the variables it makes things "generically" easier - the usual unfamiliarity with a different adjustment is only a temporary difficulty.
This is like the old argument that some squirt is desirable because it "counteracts" swerve. But I don't buy that - squirt
hides swerve but doesn't reduce it, only making it less apparent and therefore harder to learn to adjust for. I don't think it allows more shots to be aimed without adjustment - it just shifts those shots to a different part of the range of adjustments.
pj
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