I like your option. It takes a ball out of play for him and makes it difficult to find a safe place for the cue ball. Forces him to play safe and not get aggressive.timdog24 said:Another option might be to bank the 9 up table and gently snuggle the cue ball against the wall of balls.
timdog24 said:Another option might be to bank the 9 up table and gently snuggle the cue ball against the wall of balls.
That's what came to my mind also. Removes a ball from opponent's side, pushes it up table and leaves nothing. All good with a 4-1 lead.timdog24 said:Another option might be to bank the 9 up table and gently snuggle the cue ball against the wall of balls.
fred bentivegna said:Strong. Unless you hit it so hard that you blast a hole thru the balls lined up, whatever the oppo does is going to leave you a better shot than you just had.
BEard
it looked to me you would have to cut the 9 to the right to get the q to the line of balls leaving it on svbs side and you would have to hit it harder maybe so you couldnt "snuggle"up so easilytimdog24 said:I like it a little better than thinning the 9 to my side and going up table like III mentioned because it leaves no air. SVB is forced to play a very passive shot, probably thinning the stack and putting the cue ball on the bottom rail. If you leave him up table, you are still in good position, but he a lot more has options. He can see all the balls. He can move a ball to his side, maybe cross bank a ball if it lays right, etc.
Unless, of course you butcher the shot like Beard said and go through the stack.
P.S. It looks like Scott might have been the one that spotted that last ball, favoring his pocket a bit.Cowboy Dennis said:
That line of four balls had been barely hit on SVB's shot. The 2 & 15 were no longer frozen I believe.Frank Almanza said:P.S. It looks like Scott might have been the one that spotted that last ball, favoring his pocket a bit.
I notice a subtle difference between the way I diagrammed this shot (post 11) and the way Frost actually played it. The difference being that Scott hit it a little harder than I diagrammed, but more straight ahead -- since he was hitting the shot with less of a cut angle, that meant he could hit it a little harder and still just snuggle up to the line-up -- and hitting it harder left the object ball a little further downtable on his own side. Good thinking, Scott.Cowboy Dennis said:This is what Scott shot and he floated the cueball gently to the 2 and just hit the 8 with it.
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Here's how he left it for SVB:
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