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General Category => PBA => Topic started by: seadrive on February 21, 2005, 06:29:36 AM

Title: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: seadrive on February 21, 2005, 06:29:36 AM: When Mika needed 8 pins to seal the deal against PA, I think he would have been better off throwing plastic from the left side, straight at the 1-2 pocket. With his accuracy, I don't think he would have had any problem knocking down 8 pins that way.

Instead, he hooks the ball at the 1-3 pocket, a shot that had previously left him with the bucket, among other multi-pin leaves.

I say throwing plastic at the pocket would have been the higher-percentage shot. I said so to my wife as he was stepping up in the 10th, so this is not Monday morning quarterbacking.

Do you agree or disagree?
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Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: mrbowlingnut on February 21, 2005, 02:34:14 PM: Agreed i do all the time in scratch league on the 1 st ball or fill ball to seal the point and win i have not yet split doing this method so i will be crossing fingers now
Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: Walking E on February 21, 2005, 02:39:10 PM: I agree as well - especially with how accurate he is with his Geico ball. Did you see how well he covered all of those buckets and the 2-8? Absolutely dead square perfect each time!
I don't think he would've had any problem going high flush either 1-2 OR 1-3 (whatever his choosing was) and getting the necessary pins to win.
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Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: tonybowls on February 21, 2005, 04:05:52 PM: Yeah he was dead flush perfect on those buckets. It's amazing how accurate these guys are.
Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: a_ak57 on February 21, 2005, 07:57:40 PM: Seadrive, you mean like the same exact thing PDW did at the open last year? He needed 9 to win, and just flew plastic down the middle (and got a strike).

Maybe it would have worked, but we'll never know.
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Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: WSUstroker on February 21, 2005, 08:07:54 PM: That may have worked, but why would you switch if you trust your shot? To make the show, Mika obviously was making shots and had the confidence to execute. I think Mika stuck with his normal shot because he trusted the line he was playing, he just didn't execute and thus didn't win.
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Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: BowlingDude300 on February 21, 2005, 08:13:11 PM: I thought he should of thrown plastic. Especially since the strikes were hard to come by.

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Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: DP3 on February 21, 2005, 09:00:46 PM: PDW needed 9 on two balls though(9 total in the tenth). He just so happened to strike on the first one. I'm sure he wouldn't have done the same thing if he just needed 9 on the last shot in the tenth
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Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: tonybowls on February 21, 2005, 09:01:58 PM: Mika made the right choice it was just poor execution of the shot.
Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: seadrive on February 21, 2005, 10:39:39 PM: quote:
Mika made the right choice it was just poor execution of the shot.

Poor execution, my tuckus. If he pulled it a board left, it was through the nose; if he got a board right, it was a bucket or a washout.

That's why I say his highest-percentage shot was a straight ball, right at the pocket. His execution on that shot would have been perfect, I assure you.
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Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: Leftyhi-trak on February 22, 2005, 02:34:03 PM: No he should have stayed with Dexter. Check the last few shows he has been on he had at least 2-3 shots per telecast where he stuck and whiffed out. I believe in sundays telecast he had done it twice already once getting a break for a nine count and the other leaving a small puzzle. On the last ball watch the slide foot and follow through which fell off to the right. I did not see any slide. Maybe it was the intensity and was him but have noticed it every te;ecast he has made this year. He has always been looking down at the shoes or testing the slide. $.02
Title: Re: Should Mika Have Thrown Plastic For 8?
Post by: ckchappy on February 25, 2005, 01:57:37 PM: I think if you have been leaving buckets you should try something new.
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