Is it better to be a shot maker or a person that knows how to play safety’s real good ??
Which One ???
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'Czar is right as usual. However, it takes a higher skill level to play great safeties so if you focus more on safeties shot making will come naturally.
Both are needed but if you focus on cue ball position you will find potting the object ball comes naturally.
Hu
Both are needed but if you focus on cue ball position you will find potting the object ball comes naturally.
Hu
A great safety player usually beats great shotmaker who is not a good position player simply because the shots are not available in a longer match- the shotmaker cannot shoot through the safeties; and when he is open he cannot always shoot through poor position- this is given that the safety player is, at least a good position player and shotmaker themselves.
The key to beating great shotmakers is mostly limiting their opportunities to open tables, where they have the ability to shoot their way out, even with some poor position play- to me, that means two things- choose a good safe when the shot is not high in percentage and always get out when you have that opportunity.
Missing shots and bad safes by one opponent really gifts the shotmaking opponent- this is my experience anyhow.
The key to beating great shotmakers is mostly limiting their opportunities to open tables, where they have the ability to shoot their way out, even with some poor position play- to me, that means two things- choose a good safe when the shot is not high in percentage and always get out when you have that opportunity.
Missing shots and bad safes by one opponent really gifts the shotmaking opponent- this is my experience anyhow.
DieselPete
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In long sets and under great pressure, the loser is often the player that turns the table over to the opponent on missed shots. The winner is often the player that turns the table over on safeties (which includes shots that intentionally create distance and leave only banks, even if the object ball is visible to a direct hit).
So, who is more likely to turn the table over on a missed shot? The shot maker or the safety expert?
I think shot makers tend to shoot shots they shouldn't, when they shouldn't.
So, who is more likely to turn the table over on a missed shot? The shot maker or the safety expert?
I think shot makers tend to shoot shots they shouldn't, when they shouldn't.
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DeeDeeCues
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Hard to play a safety 'real good' when the nine ball is the only thing on the table...
So, unless your opponents pay escape shots 'real bad', you will have to make a shot to win.
So, unless your opponents pay escape shots 'real bad', you will have to make a shot to win.
Do you guys have to constantly shatter my delusions of grandeur??
I thot I could play a lick.
You can rattle a guy quick if you constantly blow out his safeties with a shot.
Good point.Shot maker!!
If you don’t miss, there is no need for safety
The poker face helps a lot. If I miss playing off of somebody else's safety I always look surprised! If I make a ball off of their safety I am already getting down over the next shot when the ball falls! I have always been a fan of "confusion to the enemy!"
Gotta keep them guessing while pretending to be just working the plan. Sometimes I am, sometimes I ain't but leaving them guessing is a major part of my game.
Hu
Then there are those of us who do both at an equally mediocre level to achieve the same...
Easy! If you can run 5 or 6 racks in a row, your safety game is not as important.
Do you guys have to constantly shatter my delusions of grandeur??
I thot I could play a lick.
I have long suspected you can play a lick or two.
Shooting pool and playing pool are two different things! I watched a middle aged road player come to town. After a few days to get acquainted he got into action with a large spot. In three or four days he was still winning with the spot reversed! He had claimed he hadn't been playing when he first showed up so the spot reversing was just credited to playing into form! He made well over a thousand in less than a week. I stayed close enough by to watch without seeming to. I didn't get into action with the road player. Would have been a fun battle but I was trying to make money, not play for pleasure.
Hu
You must have me confused with someone else Hu!!
That's part of the fun of it!!!
Hard for me to say.
I've posted videos of me playing before, and people have commented that I had to shoot my way out too much, and that the run outs were made harder by poor shape where you had to come with a shot.
I duck quite a bit, but I do so with purpose. No safety just to get BIH, must have a furtherance by putting a ball near a cluster for a break out, or tie up a cluster where the breakout shot is advantageous to me, but not to them.
I've posted videos of me playing before, and people have commented that I had to shoot my way out too much, and that the run outs were made harder by poor shape where you had to come with a shot.
I duck quite a bit, but I do so with purpose. No safety just to get BIH, must have a furtherance by putting a ball near a cluster for a break out, or tie up a cluster where the breakout shot is advantageous to me, but not to them.