You need the ball to "start up" sooner, so a layout that is earlier such as lowing the pin is going to help. Any drilling pattern used to start hooking and or reving up sooner uses energy up quicker therefore is smoother on the backend.
You are using an agressive ball now and it is going to long so drill another agressive back to start up sooner, that in theory lower the backend reaction, but it is much better, than having a ball with a lot of engery stored to snap that does not find enough friction to do so.