Australia just missed out on recording their second win from fifteen stagings of the World Cup of Pool against the team of Albin Ouschan (World Champion X2) and Mario He, representing Austria (2017 and 2019 champions, 2018 runner up).
Honestly this has been bugging me about the game for a few years now. Feels like it'd be way easier to create space with a good shepherd than chipping the ball around the way they do. Even when teams are trying to make space for a hard runner through the front of the contest it's more common to try and lead an opponent out of the space instead, which seems odd to me. I can only assume there's some kind of analytic reason for it, since it seems to be league wide.
Honestly this has been bugging me about the game for a few years now. Feels like it'd be way easier to create space with a good shepherd than chipping the ball around the way they do. Even when teams are trying to make space for a hard runner through the front of the contest it's more common to try and lead an opponent out of the space instead, which seems odd to me. I can only assume there's some kind of analytic reason for it, since it seems to be league wide.