I've been watching a lot of Steve Davis lately. People tend to put Hendry and O'Sullivan in the center of attention, completely understandable, yet I am still in complete marvel when I watch Steve. He's got everything: technique, versatility, tactics, focus, breakbuilding, cue action, willpower. Fantastic!
Hendry and O’Sullivan both grew on the shoulders of Davis. Davis took the game to a new level with total clearances on half chances. Davis was Ronnie’s childhood hero.
It looks like Steve Davis was shell shocked at the end celebrating with other people as snooker is such an individual sport! Sid Wadell really made the Mosconi cup with the commentary!
Exactly, snooker is an individual sport, whereas pool is a team sport. Shell shocked Steve Davis at the end celebrating, it is another perfect description. It was Steve Davis' reaction to the intensity of the celebrating of Mosconi Cup victory that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared, flight, or an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk. FFS!
@@johntallanger4036 good to know you can beat strickland without being a great pool player. Says more about Strickland than it does about Davis I guess
@@Welcome2Meap I think you may not understand how pool or sports work. Miserak beat Davis in snooker but that doesn't make him a better snooker player.
@@johntallanger4036 you’re not understanding my argument. You implied Davis wasn’t a great pool player. I never implied beating someone made that person better than the other. Davis is not better than Strickland at pool, but to dismiss him as not a great player is foolish
@@Welcome2Meap I'm saying directly Davis is not and was not a great pool player. There's no evidence of it, that's for sure. He had a nice run at a big tourney is the only thing I'm aware of that was impressive. So if there's no evidence of it, my presumption is he's on the level of the other billiards guys....pretty bad. Now if he fully transitioned like Mark Gray or Drago, could he have been good? Sure, I don't see why not. But great? Never has anyone gone from billiards to pool and been great. I don't think anyone has even ever won a major tournament. So yes, I think I understand your point. It depends how you define great. If being a guy who never won a major tourney and had a losing record in Mosconi Cup is "great" then Davis is great. Not as great as Mike Dechaine, Skyler Woodward, or Alex Kazakis. Certainly not as great as David Alcaide. Nowhere near the coversation of Varner, Hall, Strickland, Segal, McCready, or any of the top pool players from that era. But "great". :)
Yes. He reminds me a bit of Russell Brand, in that his basic speech patterns and elocution give no indication of such mastery over the English language. It catches you off guard. Like a man who can recite the complete works of Shakespeare while chasing his Whippet round the living room. (that line inspired by Sid ;))
This British announcer is something else. Whoever he is, if he had been 20 years earlier and the broadcasting thing didn't pan out I'm pretty sure the flying circus could have something for him.
Sid Waddel, He was a Cambridge educated Modern History graduate. He was a special talent as a commentator both in pool and his main game Darts. He past away about 10 years ago.
I’m glad i found this comment and glad there was an answer because the british commentator is absolutely poetically amazing the contrast between him and the classic american makes this even better
Worth mentioning this - the PDC World Darts Championship trophy is named the Sid Waddell Trophy. Sid's impact on darts was unbelievable. Sid is THE voice of darts. I'm a big fan of the commentators of today, especially John Part. But he couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Sid, Dave Lanning and John Gwynne.
Everyone likes to always bring up the "muh snooker players are so much better" when Davis has been playing professional 9 ball since the 90s, and he's one of the FEW top snooker players to play both successfully. They are two different games and it's not worth talking about, you can be amazing at one and horrible at the other.
I don't doubt the quality or skill of some of the best 9 ball pool players, but I don't think any of them could go onto a snooker table and beat a Snooker World Champion over the best of 9.
I watched Efren play snooker with some random dude and it was an embarrassment. He couldn’t make a break of 30 and I thought the same thing. Yea imagine pool players play right now against Selby. Don’t care who they are selby will win even if he plays with an eye patch on
Yeah ive watched some of the very best pool players try there luck in a snooker table, most cant get a break over 7 some a little under 30. Its fairly easy coming from a snooker table onto a pool table but even then the top snooker guys find it very hard beating the best of the pool players but they are both unique at the own game so total respect to both 👊👊
@@hustlenut7910 the only one I know half way decent is Jason Shaw and that’s because snooker if pretty popular in his country. He practiced for about a year at the hall he was actually working. He managed to make a 146 in practice I believe. Nowhere close to a pro player but impressive. I’m tempted to say he could be a pro in snooker if he wanted
Ironic it was a cut into a blind pocket that cost Strickland as it's a similar shot that Steve missed to lose the 1985 world Snooker championship to Taylor.
Nerve to take it? this is childs play to any snooker player. This is the game people who aren't talented enough for snooker play. Total piece of piss. I feel like I'd beat Earl and I'm only a club snooker player
@@npdoughty1405 most snooker players are decent enough at pool, but that doesn't mean they don't get beaten at pool by the pool players lol, granted most pool players aren't great snooker players, some of them do ok though, but i've never seen a world class pool player play world class snooker.
Waste of time trying it again when there is no pressure on it! He missed because of pressure and nerves! His heart was pumping hard! Doesn’t matter how good you are, you can miss anything.
I’ve been playing and watching snooker and pool for over 58 yrs. The difference in skill level is obvious as I’ve yet to see a pool champion contend in any snooker tournament with huge prize money.
Only just watched this and great to see one of countless examples of snooker players beating pool players at their own game. Reading the comments some of which are embarrassing…snooker requires less cue ball skill etc and Davis has a limited cue action. So wide of the mark! Snooker is way more popular throughout the world and pays way more money. The techniques of players like Siegel Strickland and bustamante are amateur in comparison to top snooker players…body movement, and standing up on the shot. I respect all cue sports and top players but when pool fans try defend their sport it’s laughable…
Wow, first a young Ronnie in 1996, and then Davis in 2022 to win the Mosconi Cup. Pool isn't their game and look at what these snooker players did. Proof positive that snooker is the superior cue sport.
to this day i cant understand why earl , a man with so much experience played that 6 ball the way he did . right hand english , he had the whole side of the table open for the 7 . ball
Steve knows all about cutting in those winning balls. Some important context for people who don't watch snooker: Steve Davis once lost a world championship (in 1985) by just barely missing the winning ball into a blind pocket, leaving an easy pot for his opponent.
Just watched it. Thanks for the tip. Also interesting that he has a losing record in Mosconi Cup. Still impressive that he can play at all at this level.
Funniest thing I ever seen . after earl lost and missed the cut. Everyone else is celebrating while earls look in to set the shot up again to try it again. Totally clasdic
Davis must have known how Earl felt missing that green into the corner, it's almost a carbon copy of the black he missed in the 85 snooker final. th-cam.com/video/DDNpyNHrmjk/w-d-xo.html
said it before, ill say it again, pool is such an easy game compared to snooker. reigning workd pool champion beaten by a snooker player who was, lets be fair, at that time in 2002 long past his snooker prime.
I critizied the break shot elsewhere but these two great masters showed how it should be performed: With a moderate force without jumping up and the outcome is better than with the modern players who slam with full force jumping up at the same time. In this match we are in year 2002, so the break shot just has developped into the wrong direction and there is no need to change the rule but these old champions could teach the modern players 👍👍👍
I'm still waiting to see the video where any one of the top pool players (snooker players excluded) takes on and beats Ronnie O'Sullivan at snooker, it will never happen, because it will show the people who idolise these pool players, what real talent really is.
Uh huh.....and Labron James would beat Dkovich at Basketball to.....and Dkovich would beat James at tennis.....No ones denying Snookers incredible elite level talent and technique involved, but lets not play this dumb game Pool is a separate game similar but separate is it somewhat easier then snooker yes, is Pool also a difficult game with a high mastery level, yes.
Awe, RIP Sid Waddell. Bless.. (nigh on a Decade already 😟) Proper Classic Match with various 'controversies' however still top notch entertainment. Earl obv' had health problems going on, but great character... Let alone PLAYER. Fair-Do's to 'The Nugget' though...
Never! Snooker is on a different level! The table is bigger and the holes are narrower! I'd say snooker players can be awsome in pool, too. On the other side to be a great snooker player it's not enogh to be an outstanding pool player. 🤔
Snooker players have far superior technique. Pool tables have pockets like buckets so they can be less precise. As for Strickland, he had no humility, pretty unpleasant character.
Funny, neither of you who commented have a clue about broadcasting in the early 2000's. Pool was not popular 20 years ago and still not as popular as it should be now, hence snooker players being invited to make up the European team, we didn't have the vast pool of players that we do now or retired players who were worthy of commentating on the game. Sid Waddell died years ago and he wasn't even a 'Pool' commentator not even an ex-player, he covered lots of sport in the UK and worked for Sky Sports who broadcast the Mosconi
I have watched this match probably 2 or 3 times every year since it was played. After the previous years result an for Davis to beat the Pearl in the championship match was a story that seemed to almost too good to be true. People also forget Davis was still playing a lot of snooker and snooker trick shots in those days! And it’s also the one of the only times you will see Davis smiling for real.
It would be nice to see more snooker players in Mosconi Cup like the old days. Imagine Trump, Neil, Selby, Ronnie...so many great players in Europe They would have to double the team capacity.
@Callum Robertson Yea, I could see a lot of things getting in the way of that, would be nice to find a balance. Maybe take note from World Cup where everybody takes a step back and plays. Hek maybe there should be a World Cup Mosconi cup that only happens every 4 years that includes every country that qualifies . Regardless, I enjoy every quality match uploaded.
@@ryanwebb9099 I’ve seen him play 9 ball, he was very good but looked as he didn’t care for it and rushed through it as Rocket is known to play fast just looked careless
He took it seriously in his Mosconi cup debut. He doesn’t have the break power like Judd, but in his prime on his day, was nearly as unstoppable as he is at snooker. (Beat Earl)
None of them are good enough at 9 ball to justify being in the team these days. It was questionable back then and more about bringing in interest (although Davis worked harder at learning the game than others and became a capable player -- over a bit of time though). Bottom line is....if you want to be good at a game you need to put the time in and learn the nuances, patterns and strategies. Every cue sport is slightly different. The ones who have switched games and been successful have done that.
These comments!!! No one is saying 9ball is equivalent to or harder than snooker. 9ball isn’t the only game played in pool, and not all pool tables have huge forgiving pockets. Love to see a snooker player have a race to 150 points in 14.1 straight pool on a 10’ table with a 4” pocket against a world champion straight pool player. It would be a different kind of chirping coming from them.
I've been watching a lot of Steve Davis lately. People tend to put Hendry and O'Sullivan in the center of attention, completely understandable, yet I am still in complete marvel when I watch Steve. He's got everything: technique, versatility, tactics, focus, breakbuilding, cue action, willpower. Fantastic!
Hendry and O’Sullivan both grew on the shoulders of Davis. Davis took the game to a new level with total clearances on half chances.
Davis was Ronnie’s childhood hero.
Davis the GOAT in his own right.. exemplary trickshot artist too.. and a true gentleman..
@@thewizard6092 i agree he is my favorite player has it all )
Him and Barry have put snooker to where it is today...brilliant player and a show man....exceptional talent...!
He did have. Today not so great, though obviously Ronnie still has and Hendry has that natural ability too.
It looks like Steve Davis was shell shocked at the end celebrating with other people as snooker is such an individual sport! Sid Wadell really made the Mosconi cup with the commentary!
Exactly, snooker is an individual sport, whereas pool is a team sport.
Shell shocked Steve Davis at the end celebrating, it is another perfect description.
It was Steve Davis' reaction to the intensity of the celebrating of Mosconi Cup victory that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared, flight, or an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk.
FFS!
2 years late but i got the same feeling at first uncomfortable then the joy
I was thinking the exact same thing
Steve Davis walks around that table like a Sniper, a Ninja, his face never changes expression.
Total stone cold killer! 💯
@@jamescade4723 I tell you sir, Steve Davis is a Legend.
Steve Davis waste alot of time before shooting thats why they start putting 30 second each shot with extension each rack.
Earl's missed shot at the end probably is still haunting him until now.
Wasn't his fault. Was the air conditioning. The PH of the felt was too acid. There was tectonic micro-activity.
@@brianm2881 haha
I think it was trying to set it up off the two rails why not just bring it bottom English bring it back a little bit it's right there
Could be a scar within him,,
no the stupid shapes he shot
I did not expect that ending. That match was even more exciting than O'Sullivans victory, in 1996! Epic!
I love the commentators
Hardly get to c this energy these days🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The great Steve Davis once again proving he's one of the all time greatest
Interesting he has a losing record in the Mosconi Cup. Great player in snooker tho.
@@johntallanger4036 good to know you can beat strickland without being a great pool player. Says more about Strickland than it does about Davis I guess
@@Welcome2Meap I think you may not understand how pool or sports work.
Miserak beat Davis in snooker but that doesn't make him a better snooker player.
@@johntallanger4036 you’re not understanding my argument. You implied Davis wasn’t a great pool player. I never implied beating someone made that person better than the other. Davis is not better than Strickland at pool, but to dismiss him as not a great player is foolish
@@Welcome2Meap I'm saying directly Davis is not and was not a great pool player. There's no evidence of it, that's for sure. He had a nice run at a big tourney is the only thing I'm aware of that was impressive.
So if there's no evidence of it, my presumption is he's on the level of the other billiards guys....pretty bad.
Now if he fully transitioned like Mark Gray or Drago, could he have been good? Sure, I don't see why not.
But great? Never has anyone gone from billiards to pool and been great. I don't think anyone has even ever won a major tournament.
So yes, I think I understand your point. It depends how you define great. If being a guy who never won a major tourney and had a losing record in Mosconi Cup is "great" then Davis is great. Not as great as Mike Dechaine, Skyler Woodward, or Alex Kazakis. Certainly not as great as David Alcaide. Nowhere near the coversation of Varner, Hall, Strickland, Segal, McCready, or any of the top pool players from that era.
But "great".
:)
Thank you! Enjoyed the pool, but can I just say that Sid Wadell was an absolute legend. :-)
Loved Sid. Don't think he could've been a Football commentator though. 🤣
Yes. He reminds me a bit of Russell Brand, in that his basic speech patterns and elocution give no indication of such mastery over the English language. It catches you off guard. Like a man who can recite the complete works of Shakespeare while chasing his Whippet round the living room. (that line inspired by Sid ;))
Ok at darts not at this game ......annoying.
You mean the commentator having multiple orgasims intermittently during his commentating.
dangerous davis romford slim
Brought a tear to my eye 😢
Steve Davis is amazing. Beats the rest under pressure in snooker and pool. A joy to watch.
Watched this live was such a great match!
No you didn't
@@P4nopticon yes I did 😂
Prove it you poser
@@Jay_Eddo
This British announcer is something else. Whoever he is, if he had been 20 years earlier and the broadcasting thing didn't pan out I'm pretty sure the flying circus could have something for him.
Sid Waddel, He was a Cambridge educated Modern History graduate. He was a special talent as a commentator both in pool and his main game Darts. He past away about 10 years ago.
I’m glad i found this comment and glad there was an answer because the british commentator is absolutely poetically amazing the contrast between him and the classic american makes this even better
He was also an author and screen writer. A great man sadly missed.
Worth mentioning this - the PDC World Darts Championship trophy is named the Sid Waddell Trophy. Sid's impact on darts was unbelievable. Sid is THE voice of darts. I'm a big fan of the commentators of today, especially John Part. But he couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Sid, Dave Lanning and John Gwynne.
Good work Steve Davis, my hero and the funniest man on the baize.
Steve is SMOOTH as SILK,, The Way He Plays the Game...
Everyone likes to always bring up the "muh snooker players are so much better" when Davis has been playing professional 9 ball since the 90s, and he's one of the FEW top snooker players to play both successfully. They are two different games and it's not worth talking about, you can be amazing at one and horrible at the other.
Lol…nice try.
Anyone who has played and watched both know the skill required for snooker is much higher than in pool!
I don't doubt the quality or skill of some of the best 9 ball pool players, but I don't think any of them could go onto a snooker table and beat a Snooker World Champion over the best of 9.
A best of 3 would be sufficient
I watched Efren play snooker with some random dude and it was an embarrassment. He couldn’t make a break of 30 and I thought the same thing. Yea imagine pool players play right now against Selby. Don’t care who they are selby will win even if he plays with an eye patch on
@@alexpaic2984 true
Yeah ive watched some of the very best pool players try there luck in a snooker table, most cant get a break over 7 some a little under 30. Its fairly easy coming from a snooker table onto a pool table but even then the top snooker guys find it very hard beating the best of the pool players but they are both unique at the own game so total respect to both 👊👊
@@hustlenut7910 the only one I know half way decent is Jason Shaw and that’s because snooker if pretty popular in his country. He practiced for about a year at the hall he was actually working. He managed to make a 146 in practice I believe. Nowhere close to a pro player but impressive. I’m tempted to say he could be a pro in snooker if he wanted
The missed 6 of Earl is somewhat similar to the missed black of Steve in the 1985 World Snooker Championship finals.... very odd coincidence
Good point 👍
Did you really create a fake account to write good point 😂😂
Steve Davis = Legend
This was the golden time of pool..when there was real drama
Ironic it was a cut into a blind pocket that cost Strickland as it's a similar shot that Steve missed to lose the 1985 world Snooker championship to Taylor.
Davis can even make pool look boring....
@@paulrailton1511 because it is
Good observation
@@wierdalien1 but yet you still watched, says a lot
@@bmac7885 naw, it something about how much i like watching steve Davis play cue sports
Steve Davis is a gentleman and a legend.
Fair play to steve he played great, epic match.
Granted he was gifted that last frame but he held his nerve and took it well
Nerve to take it? this is childs play to any snooker player. This is the game people who aren't talented enough for snooker play. Total piece of piss. I feel like I'd beat Earl and I'm only a club snooker player
@@npdoughty1405 pftttttttt oh shut up kiddo go finish your chores
@@npdoughty1405 most snooker players are decent enough at pool, but that doesn't mean they don't get beaten at pool by the pool players lol, granted most pool players aren't great snooker players, some of them do ok though, but i've never seen a world class pool player play world class snooker.
I just heard this on Barry Hearns audiobook so thought I’d watch it. I’ve got goosebumps.😮
always love a sid waddell commentated match. Bloke is just the best. RIP Sid. You're always missed.
Are you kidding us?
@@lanternman13 haha yeah he's unbelievably annoying always adds unnecessary emphasis on everything
sid waddell commentated matches are muted in this house... talk about annoying!
@@jordietchells5051 you all sound very boring
Poor co-commentator trying to talk about Wats actually going on while Sid waffles on 😂
Earl hadn't discovered finger bandages and arm appendages yet.
26:28 - Johnny Vegas!
can't believe this was basically 20 years ago
Great commentary. What a game.
Love how Europe starts celebrating the win while earl pulls the ball he missed and practiced the shot he just missed
It’s an easy shot when there’s no pressure.
He is still there and practicing the shot
He stopped on 2020 due to Covid
*in
He wants to get that bad shot out of his head !
Earl still trying the shot at the end 😂
Waste of time trying it again when there is no pressure on it! He missed because of pressure and nerves! His heart was pumping hard! Doesn’t matter how good you are, you can miss anything.
Earl is like trump after the electoral college confirmed Joe Biden as the 2020 POTUS
Thats the best part
lol
@@PriusMike88 Except Davis didn't have his boys stuff the balls into the pockets like Biden did in the ballot counting centers.
TH-cam is great for watching the greatest games in history. But it is a bit sad that no matter who wins it's always Strickland in the other chair
Top snookers players can be great in both disciplines, but top pool players won't go near a snooker table.
Awesome stuff...more like a football finally. Davis...my champ.
I’ve been playing and watching snooker and pool for over 58 yrs.
The difference in skill level is obvious as I’ve yet to see a pool champion contend in any snooker tournament with huge prize money.
Dangerous Davis love it 😊
Steve is magic...that was an amazing game!!
Strickland always looks like he's sat outside the head masters office.
One of the few things that hasn't changed is John McDonald's voice
Only just watched this and great to see one of countless examples of snooker players beating pool players at their own game. Reading the comments some of which are embarrassing…snooker requires less cue ball skill etc and Davis has a limited cue action. So wide of the mark! Snooker is way more popular throughout the world and pays way more money. The techniques of players like Siegel Strickland and bustamante are amateur in comparison to top snooker players…body movement, and standing up on the shot. I respect all cue sports and top players but when pool fans try defend their sport it’s laughable…
Wow, first a young Ronnie in 1996, and then Davis in 2022 to win the Mosconi Cup. Pool isn't their game and look at what these snooker players did. Proof positive that snooker is the superior cue sport.
Let's go Europe
Let's go
I am so proud of you guys keep it going
This video is 20 years old
Davis has been around long enough to get 3 nicknames: The Nugget, "Interesting", Romford Slim.
Pockets look huge
They are huge! You can hit them on the cushion first and they’ll still drop!
日本人ですが、こういう試合羨ましいですね。モスコーニカップ凄く良い試合です。
my thoughts exactly
Very suspense and exiting that is the first time I saw earl missed a dhot
great match. i just watched europe 5 zip the USA today on day 2 it it 8-2 europe 2020
to this day i cant understand why earl , a man with so much experience played that 6 ball the way he did . right hand english , he had the whole side of the table open for the 7 . ball
I cant believe earl didnt draw the cue back on the 5 shot.
What a choke.
He hates the draw he always takes the forward option , I’m trying to figure out why he loaded that thing up with so much left? Must of hit it wrong
Steve knows all about cutting in those winning balls. Some important context for people who don't watch snooker: Steve Davis once lost a world championship (in 1985) by just barely missing the winning ball into a blind pocket, leaving an easy pot for his opponent.
Just watched it. Thanks for the tip. Also interesting that he has a losing record in Mosconi Cup. Still impressive that he can play at all at this level.
@@johntallanger4036 casual american
Cant imagine what earl went through after that night. 47:02 you could see varner's face saying "dafuq was that"
pressure does crazy things to a man
when one of the commentators SCARESTHE SHIT outta you when you're wearing headphones because out of nowhere he will TALK SO LOUD
Davis barely misses.
The nugget steve Davis a legend
Funniest thing I ever seen . after earl lost and missed the cut. Everyone else is celebrating while earls look in to set the shot up again to try it again. Totally clasdic
Ye he carried on playing
Epic, I want to see the 12 - 1 mosconi cup now though
47:52 that ball went into the quantum realm.
Nothing better in Sports than a 'home dog' Victory.
The Pearl met The Nugget and cracked ....
Davis must have known how Earl felt missing that green into the corner, it's almost a carbon copy of the black he missed in the 85 snooker final.
th-cam.com/video/DDNpyNHrmjk/w-d-xo.html
No one noticed but GOAT no 2 of billiards stayed to practice his missed shot 😮
No one but Efren surpassed him as a player😊
Brit commentator was:
1/2 camp- 1/2 crazy...
So glad to have the usuals now watching snooker.
Didn’t know Davis break was that good.
No stupid antics from the crowd back in 2002. Where did we go wrong?
19:23 Steve has a 'force of habit' moment here by looking for the rest at the bottom of the table 😂
One of the best 9 ball pool matches of all time.
said it before, ill say it again, pool is such an easy game compared to snooker. reigning workd pool champion beaten by a snooker player who was, lets be fair, at that time in 2002 long past his snooker prime.
I critizied the break shot elsewhere but these two great masters showed how it should be performed: With a moderate force without jumping up and the outcome is better than with the modern players who slam with full force jumping up at the same time. In this match we are in year 2002, so the break shot just has developped into the wrong direction and there is no need to change the rule but these old champions could teach the modern players 👍👍👍
Commentary is fantastic 👏👏
A good snooker player will always beat a good pool player
Love how snooker players can transfer to pool but Earl would struggle to death playing snooker
Maybe it is just for bangers.
Earl Strickland.... the most arrogant sportsman ever?
I'm still waiting to see the video where any one of the top pool players (snooker players excluded) takes on and beats Ronnie O'Sullivan at snooker, it will never happen, because it will show the people who idolise these pool players, what real talent really is.
Uh huh.....and Labron James would beat Dkovich at Basketball to.....and Dkovich would beat James at tennis.....No ones denying Snookers incredible elite level talent and technique involved, but lets not play this dumb game Pool is a separate game similar but separate is it somewhat easier then snooker yes, is Pool also a difficult game with a high mastery level, yes.
Do you know the brazilian player Rui Chapéu? He was the best pool player I have ever seen
That just means you’ve never seen Efren Reyes.
Awe, RIP Sid Waddell. Bless.. (nigh on a Decade already 😟) Proper Classic Match with various 'controversies' however still top notch entertainment. Earl obv' had health problems going on, but great character... Let alone PLAYER. Fair-Do's to 'The Nugget' though...
Earl hasn't got a chance. You don't fuck with snooker players
Earl is still there today playing that shot.😂
When can I watch Earl Strickland play snooker?
Never! Snooker is on a different level! The table is bigger and the holes are narrower! I'd say snooker players can be awsome in pool, too. On the other side to be a great snooker player it's not enogh to be an outstanding pool player. 🤔
The British announcer is the most unnerving person to listen to.
Snooker players are sooo great!!! So now about Justin Bergman Vs Judd Trump,10 ball, race to 100, for 100k?
Who is this crazy comentator :D
Sid waddell who sadly passed away. Best known for darts which I'd highly recommend watching a best of clip
@@woody816 What a legend :)
Why does that commentator just shout out of nowhere lol
Sid calls everything like it's a cricket test.
It's funny how the commentator said "are you watching in Manila, Efren and the others there" at 48:05 😂
R.I.P The Great Sid Waddell
One word... Clinical....
A good snooker player will always beat a good pool player.
Snooker players have far superior technique. Pool tables have pockets like buckets so they can be less precise. As for Strickland, he had no humility, pretty unpleasant character.
I see a lot of snooker fans hating 😂😂
If y’all think earl can’t rock on a snooker table, y’all out yalls minds 😂😂😂
He can't
Again, one of them knows the game and the other one just yells a lot.
That's all they're good at.
Funny, neither of you who commented have a clue about broadcasting in the early 2000's. Pool was not popular 20 years ago and still not as popular as it should be now, hence snooker players being invited to make up the European team, we didn't have the vast pool of players that we do now or retired players who were worthy of commentating on the game. Sid Waddell died years ago and he wasn't even a 'Pool' commentator not even an ex-player, he covered lots of sport in the UK and worked for Sky Sports who broadcast the Mosconi
@@cosmojonesmusic Who? Europeans? Someone needs to take a long hard look at their countries history and not just in pool :-)
Careful. The man you are criticising is a national treasure. He wrote Jossy's Giants!
I have watched this match probably 2 or 3 times every year since it was played. After the previous years result an for Davis to beat the Pearl in the championship match was a story that seemed to almost too good to be true. People also forget Davis was still playing a lot of snooker and snooker trick shots in those days! And it’s also the one of the only times you will see Davis smiling for real.
What happens to the music? Is the walk on music muted due to copyright?
Pool players’ cueing always looks so erratic to me compared snooker players’.
The shot clock really did wonders for future tournaments, didn't it?
It would be nice to see more snooker players in Mosconi Cup like the old days. Imagine Trump, Neil, Selby, Ronnie...so many great players in Europe They would have to double the team capacity.
Different game. They have trouble with 9 ball players. Ronnie tried it and wasn’t as good as you think.
@Callum Robertson
Yea, I could see a lot of things getting in the way of that, would be nice to find a balance. Maybe take note from World Cup where everybody takes a step back and plays. Hek maybe there should be a World Cup Mosconi cup that only happens every 4 years that includes every country that qualifies .
Regardless, I enjoy every quality match uploaded.
@@ryanwebb9099
I’ve seen him play 9 ball, he was very good but looked as he didn’t care for it and rushed through it as Rocket is known to play fast just looked careless
He took it seriously in his Mosconi cup debut. He doesn’t have the break power like Judd, but in his prime on his day, was nearly as unstoppable as he is at snooker. (Beat Earl)
None of them are good enough at 9 ball to justify being in the team these days. It was questionable back then and more about bringing in interest (although Davis worked harder at learning the game than others and became a capable player -- over a bit of time though). Bottom line is....if you want to be good at a game you need to put the time in and learn the nuances, patterns and strategies. Every cue sport is slightly different. The ones who have switched games and been successful have done that.
Earls last shot on the six he should've played a carom off the 8ball
Where the hell did they get that commentator he is out of his damn mind
I don't understand my the British commentator didn't show much excitement throughout the game. lol
I almost can’t believe how these great players misjudge relatively simple shots under the pressure of the event. Great format!
It’s like playing in a pool league! It’s the pressure of not wanting to let your teammates down. Can be very hard to block out.
This is the way it should be today, without a shot clock.
These comments!!! No one is saying 9ball is equivalent to or harder than snooker. 9ball isn’t the only game played in pool, and not all pool tables have huge forgiving pockets. Love to see a snooker player have a race to 150 points in 14.1 straight pool on a 10’ table with a 4” pocket against a world champion straight pool player. It would be a different kind of chirping coming from them.