Not for nothing, but I don't remember hearing any complaints, if there were any at all, regarding Mike Miller. I mean, 2 fingers for his first ball, then fingers and thumb for any spare attempt.
More than that, Gary Dickinson went down to 1 finger and a thumb for his spares, and again, no complaints.
Yet someone like Belmo, Packy, or Afrofish gets the complaints because they are doing the same thing that Miller did 30 years ago? ugh.
The way I see it is this: They are still using their body to the best of their abilities within the rules the WTBA and every national governing body under them have related to the release of the ball. If people are complaining about what they are doing, I'm laughing at them because while it may have been in a different era, Dickinson was doing less with what he had and was still scoring better than those complainers are.
In short, if you can do more with less, then more power to you; it doesn't matter which part is less, whether it be more or less fingers. What does matter is that there is a limit to what one can do with less or more, and that is the part that can be controlled. If you go overboard or with too much "more", you'll get less. It also goes the other way: if you go with too much "less", you'll also get less. That's where you need to know what to do with less or more to get more. Once you master that, it doesn't matter.
BL.
