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djones

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Belmo's Approach
« on: February 27, 2012, 08:50:50 AM »
All the posts concerning the U.S. Open show have been about PDW's behavior and skills. But, one of the things I found most interesting is the line Belmonte played in the semi-final. Hard and straight up 10. He obviously thought it was his best chance of advancing; but, considering his A game, one would have thought he would have been deeper than PDW at that point.

 

If nothing else, he burned up a spot for PDW and Fagan to throw at in the finals. 


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Cobalt Bomb

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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 05:30:16 PM »
Belmo played that line for at least part of the qualifying. I watched him throw a 290 on Friday, going straight up the track with a breakpoint of about 8, 3 boards further right than most bowlers. Next game, Dan Maclelland, who had been watching Belmo, tried to do the same thing and couldn't. Belmo's power is amazing.


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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 05:35:26 PM »
One of the Brunswick reps was trying to get one of their staffers from Europe to play the outside, around the 5 board, with no swing. The staffer refused and suffered. My friend played that line and while he is not a touring quality level, when he did he had some error room that no one playing the deep inside line did. Kind of surprising as this pattern is not supposed to be playable out there.
 


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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 07:33:05 PM »

It was interesting to see him approach it that way, and he was fairly successful during the tv show.  I have to say that was the first time I ever saw him use a solid Virtual Gravity Nano on anything. 



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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 10:02:31 PM »
 Heres my take on this... Belmo must have seen something in practice and it made him think he could score big time going straight as he did,etc. I think he would have had a better chance if he had played inside and wheeled it like the rest of the players, but he did bowl a pretty good game regardless. I dont know how the look would have been for a normal player(rev rate) but it may have been tough I kind of imagine playing so far out.
 

I do think like Djones mentioned, What Belmo did was burn a very playable area for Mike Fagan... He appeared to even miss a little right on some of his shots, and they still screamed back to the 1-3. I kind of think Mike could have done better with a stronger ball, but when you have just one game etc. its hard to make the moves needed to make sometimes. Still one of the best shows I have ever seen. All close matches.... John
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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2012, 11:59:28 PM »
I believe Belmo and Fagan are good buddies, so I'm sure they talked about strategy.  Playing out looked decent for Belmo, while creating some miss room for Fagan.  If he had played in, it may have torched the deep inside line and made it more difficult for Fagan in the championship match.


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John D Davis

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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2012, 01:43:14 AM »
 While you may think they had a discussion and maybe had a stradegy, I would have to say that may have just been the dumbest thing I have ever heard! Even though they are so called "buddies" at that point and time, it is every man for himself. Belmo played that outside line because he just felt good about it. We are talking about the US Open here not some local bull crap tourny. End of story...
 
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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2012, 07:50:18 AM »
No matter how good a friend he is, there's no way I'm sacrificing myself so he can win the title.  I'm sure he played there because it gave him the best chance (for potential multiple games), not so he could burn a spot for someone else.


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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2012, 08:25:53 AM »
Belmonte had a great line... He just missed his mark a couple/few times & that was the obvious difference in the match...
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Re: Belmo's Approach
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2012, 09:48:15 AM »
Monster is dead on....on Xtra Frame he played in the track area during match play when he went on his monster run.  He was doing what got him to the show, and he bowled a pretty decent game.  Remember guys 215 is usually enough to win matches at the Open....Weber just plain outbowled him.

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