Friday, August 11, 2006

I couldn't make this shot again in a million years


This is a diagram of a match-clinching shot I made several weeks ago at Sophies. It's a pretty self-explanatory shot, I am shooting from C1 and don't have a direct shot at my last ball on the table (the 13). A shot or two before I made this shot, my coach had advised me to simply give my opponent the ball, to essentially hand it to him and give him ball in hand anywhere on the table (I'm not crazy about this tactic, but more on that some other time). So instead of using it to pocket his one or his two, he played a safe in return, leaving me blind on the 13, setting me up for this shot.

So I line up the kick shot, honestly just hoping to make contact with the 13. But what happened was pretty sick. As you can see, the 13 went into the side pocket and left me with an angle on the 8 into the opposite side to win the match. The guy was pretty disgusted, he didn't even make eye contact with me as we shook hands.

Best part about the evening, aside from the win, is that earlier in the match I had made the 8 in on a break. Still waiting for my patch to arrive.

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