SJDinPHX
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I actually have the tapes somewhere up in my attic. The match with lebron and david howard has some telling moments in it as well. However, the finals were the real sign it was truly a dump. I remember it differently that the professor....
Buddy was on the hill, <---Tyler, this is why I'm having so much trouble digesting this whole thing...Even if this was Buddy's "first dump" (which it may well have been, as it sure looked like it) ...he surely would have known enough to be very sure "NOT" to get on the hill, TWO GAMES ahead of LeBron, wouldn't ya think ? I think lebron still needed 2 games. Buddy scratched in the side on a shot where he hit the end rail with the cb first. I have been watching buddy play for 20 years, and it just was so so out of place. Hill hill, buddy had to play for an 8 9 combo. He got good on the combo too. I think the odds on the combo from where he got were probably about 85% make for a top player.... who knows. I always thought that scratch was more telling though.
Interestingly, when buddy missed the combo he left lebron a semi difficult shot on the 8. He knocked it in. That would have been interesting to see what would have happened if he would have dogged that. <---Very true...or what if Mike would have "jawwed" the 9 ball, on either of his next two wins, which would have forced a guy who has't mis-cued or jumped the table, since he was 12, would have forced Buddy to do !...Or else face SEVERE consequences, from either the Book, or the Bettor's
Tyler,
I, like everyone else, would really like to see these tapes. The event happened during my hiatus, and I have only heard several vastly differing '9th hand' viewpoints, on how it all unfolded...Including that LeBron, (who was not all THAT weak)...may have wound up in the finale "legitimately"...And a plan was hurriedly hatched, at that point, to do the "nasty" !... Which sounds MUCH more plausable to me..! ...It boggles the mind, that it was an eight man collusion, from the start, as seems to be the general consensus.
There, would have to be many more people involved than just the 8 players ..It would also have to include...All the players circle of friend's (who would have to be in the know), cash ($$$) runner's, Money men, (AKA $take hor$e$) and a good mix of "guess again" bettors ...As most pool players are broke anyway, or will be, soon after their arrival in LV.) IMO,..It would take someone like Artie B. to mastermind such a clusterf##k.. And I doubt he'd even be interested !
Also, wouldn't there have to be at least three individual DUMP'S before the final 'ideal pairing' could be assured...Would not all the prior matches have included 'heisting' the book ? (as pool player's are not known for their sublety, or lack of greed ) It appears every other player, would also be an odds on favorite against LeBron...Wouldn't the 'Vegas book' (not known to be idiot's)... have spotted a trend, and at some point...taken future matches "off the board" ?
Who knows what really happened FOR SURE !..A lie detector test, from the 2 principles, may not work at all...As neither Buddy nor Mike, would not want to admit to, (A) "Dogging it" that bad...or (B) "Butchering" an easy dump...:sorry
Paul "The Rest of the Story" McDuck"
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