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tvphotog

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Ryan Shafer
« on: January 15, 2012, 09:36:07 AM »
I felt so bad for him today, I was rooting for him. He deserves a major title !!

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Re: Ryan Shafer
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2012, 01:50:35 PM »
I felt like he made a terrible ball change. The Marvel Pearl was rolling great and for the most part he was carrying with it. The Nano Pearl was just too much ball for how much the lanes had broken down.

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Re: Ryan Shafer
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2012, 02:02:50 PM »
In the eyes of a Monday morning quarterback with 20/40 vision ():
 
I don't think he had other choices, unless he had several of each with different drillings or surfaces.
Palermaa destroyed an area in the midlane and Shafer had to use a ball strong enough so he could play inside of or at least skid thru the dry area Palermaa created. That was the serious problem high rev bowlers create for tweeners, like Shafer. When he slowed down a hair or pulled it even 1 board inside of target, he went thru the nose and was lucky just to leave the 3/6/10.
 
Plus on TV, that 3/6/10 is not an easy spare, made even harder by both the Scorpion pattern and the destroyed track area. Shafer's other problem is that he doesn't throw a straight ball at any spares. Almost every one hooks to some extent.
 
That said, I wish I had 1/4 of Shafer's talent and tenacity.
Country wrote on 1/16/2012 2:50 PM:I felt like he made a terrible ball change. The Marvel Pearl was rolling great and for the most part he was carrying with it. The Nano Pearl was just too much ball for how much the lanes had broken down.

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Re: Ryan Shafer
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2012, 04:45:24 PM »
Maybe he should have gotten a weaker ball and stayed in the same spot or moved right more

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Dan Belcher

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Re: Ryan Shafer
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2012, 07:34:49 PM »
The problems with this strategy: 1) Getting the ball to hook enough downlane (where there was obviously carrydown) to carry the corner pins, and 2) Osku's friction just inside his target would mean he would have very little mistake room left, and there would be fresher oil right which meant anything sent wide wouldn't have a chance of making it back. There's a reason the pros very rarely try to shell down and throw it straighter late in blocks. Doing that intentionally takes away some of your margin for error.
 



chrischop04 wrote on 1/16/2012 5:45 PM:Maybe he should have gotten a weaker ball and stayed in the same spot or moved right more



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Re: Ryan Shafer
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2012, 07:43:09 PM »

 ok i see what u mean i have bowled a pba shot leauge but it was an adult youth league so not much oil was being moved like that so the shot stays pretty fresh



Dan Belcher wrote on 1/16/2012 8:34 PM:
The problems with this strategy: 1) Getting the ball to hook enough downlane (where there was obviously carrydown) to carry the corner pins, and 2) Osku's friction just inside his target would mean he would have very little mistake room left, and there would be fresher oil right which meant anything sent wide wouldn't have a chance of making it back. There's a reason the pros very rarely try to shell down and throw it straighter late in blocks. Doing that intentionally takes away some of your margin for error.
 






chrischop04 wrote on 1/16/2012 5:45 PM:Maybe he should have gotten a weaker ball and stayed in the same spot or moved right more





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Dan Belcher

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Re: Ryan Shafer
« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2012, 08:16:49 PM »
Yeah, that's the biggest problem with PBA Experience leagues in general. You don't really see the same kind of transition the patterns are designed to ha because you don't have enough balls going down the lane in one session, plus league bowlers tend to not play the lanes the same way the pros would (mostly you'll see everyone on one pair playing different parts of the lane, etc.). Not to mention it's pretty unlikely you'll have three guys on your pair with rev rates as high as Rash, Belmo, and Osku.  



chrischop04 wrote on 1/16/2012 8:43 PM:

 ok i see what u mean i have bowled a pba shot leauge but it was an adult youth league so not much oil was being moved like that so the shot stays pretty fresh


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Re: Ryan Shafer
« Reply #22 on: January 29, 2012, 07:26:54 AM »
I can honestly say that this year is the first time I wouldn't have minded Schafer winning a title.  In years past it has always seemed to me that he's constantly complaining about this or that (his attitude last year on tv was TERRIBLE).  Guess what?  You always leave 7-10s on tv because you leak the ball right.  Is it easy to do?  Yes.  Is it some cosmically bad break that magically follows you to every show?  No.  But this season has been different.  He's been controlling himself more, he's playing a smarter shot, and most importantly I think he's been leveraging his experience to great effect.  It really is too bad he didn't take the championship home.


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