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  1. German Open 2018

    Bobrow doesn't read the schedule. The men singles final should be now.
  2. German Open 2018

    No this was when he was younger as well. The speculation was that he was always injured and that this limited his practice. But the other viewpoint was that he just didn't enjoy training.
  3. German Open 2018

    I know why - Xu Xin just looks more like himself than Ma Long did in the whole match.
  4. German Open 2018

    Personally I like the strides the players are making to get closer to China. Cheng I Ching, Kasumi Ishikawa and Seo Hyowon are making genuine improvements. Yes they are still behind the core CNT but good things are happening. Maybe China wasn't so paranoid after all when it banned foreigners...
  5. German Open 2018

    Boll is notorious for not liking to train and for mostly training by playing or simulating matches. So I don't think he should be fully taken as representative. That said, his POV is still important.
  6. German Open 2018

    Yes, he called his timeout to calm his player down not give them tactics. And his player was usually the worse player in the matchup. Neither of the above was true most of the time. That is my point.
  7. German Open 2018

    Yes, we did. It's similar to a debate over whether Liu Guoliang made the CNT great or something else is fundamentally at work.
  8. German Open 2018

    You may be 100% right and yours is the traditional thinking. But there were times in NBA matches that Phil Jackson would let his team play through tough times where the traditional thinking was that a timeout is needed. Sometimes, it is just about knowing your player and when you think...
  9. German Open 2018

    Timo is an experienced player being managed by an experienced coach (Rosskopf). You don't think they have an agreement about how to handle these things?
  10. German Open 2018

    Obviously. The point is that it doesn't always make a difference and the coach still has the prerogative to read his player and make a judgement call, as opposed to doing something just as logical and getting second guessed. Timo didn't play any worse in this match vs how he played, even on...
  11. German Open 2018

    What would you have told Timo to do? No point using the timeout if you have nothing to say.
  12. German Open 2018

    This is Timo's best chance (on home soil) and I don't think it is going to happen. Its one of those rare occasions that i dont want it to happen either. I miss seeing the Captain and i want all these silly comments about thr new world rankings to reduce a bit and they won't if Ma Long doesn't...
  13. German Open 2018

    Was she once the cadet coach? Can't understand how she gets assigned all these somewhat lower players...
  14. German Open 2018

    SYS won.
  15. German Open 2018

    Finally blocked too.
  16. German Open 2018

    It's working for me today...
  17. German Open 2018

    That's a reasonable point. The one thing I have never found is any feeling that Truls hides his serves. But violations are violations and the rules are so inconsistently applied that all kinds of arguments over right and wrong are inevitable.
  18. German Open 2018

    The refs are probably being graded/evaluated. This stuff tends to happen when they are being graded.
  19. German Open 2018

    When the lady calls the fault, it is the first time you see him serving facing us, and it is pretty obvious the ball disappears, though it didn't bother Truls as much as the calls.
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