I think Scott has dug a hole that there probably ain't no climbing out of, too bad.
There's quite a few folks talking about what Scott needs to do today to try to climb back in it. Most suggest he play more aggressively, take some chances and push the limits of his capabilities. Let me say I completely understand the standard logic in one pocket to "play the score", which means be conservative when ahead and be aggressive when behind.
But, what I saw yesterday and some even Thursday and Friday was Scott beating Dennis to the shot routinely. I saw Scott gaining a 4, 5, 6, or even 7 ball advantage at least maybe a dozen games, in which he later made a poor decision going for a risky shot when he should have continued to gather all the balls into a wedge up table and just wait for Dennis to take a risk to get ONE ball.:frus
There's no taking anything away from Dennis, His shotmaking is probably the best, and his defensive play was very, very good. But, there's also no denying that Scott had a big lead in more than enough games to be sitting on the lead right now had he not made some very bad decisions late in many games. Even had he only saved half of those "giveaway" games, this would be very close right now, there's really no excuse for Scott to have made so many mistakes with big leads as he did.
So, contrary to the majority, and respectfully so, I would like to see Scott play the early game around the stack exactly as he did yesterday (I think he outplayed Dennis in early game situations), and then when he get a lead, especially 6 or 7 balls, NEVER do anything but take all remaining ball out of play so Dennis has to make one ball at a time.
By the way, if Scott does this, they haven't allowed enough time to finish this today.:sorry