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DGPT: 2019 Memorial Championship
- Thread starter brutalbrutus
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SD86
Banned
Man, I wish I had Paul McBeth's putting problems... :|
brutalbrutus
* Ace Member *
Some of this might be a bit of wildness with his other discs. He knew his Innova stuff so well and with his ability, he had great course/conditions management even as aggressive as he is. He seems to be leaving himself a lot of downhill and headwind putts right now...
brutalbrutus
* Ace Member *
Livestream Links...
Friday
FPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE7cAFMr6fU
MPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCpUD-4aJsg
Saturday
FPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JnP8x4bW50
MPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkeckwmWBmI
Sunday
FPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdfmNfjNHm8
MPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6DJ2irv8QU
Friday
FPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE7cAFMr6fU
MPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCpUD-4aJsg
Saturday
FPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JnP8x4bW50
MPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkeckwmWBmI
Sunday
FPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdfmNfjNHm8
MPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6DJ2irv8QU
frasnow
Eagle Member
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At LVC he was 1st at getting to C1 in regulation, but 92nd at C1 putts. This would indicate his putting is the struggle. https://udisclive.com/players/paulmcbeth?t=lvc2019
brutalbrutus
* Ace Member *
Just because you are in c1 doesn't mean you left yourself an easy putt...and I did say some of this not all of it.
SD86
Banned
I think it was Worlds 2016 at Emporia, when Wysocki won his first title, that McBeth had a ton of shots go OB. IOW, he was wild (and over-aggressive) with his Innova discs. Yes, he's still learning his Discraft discs, but he does have those occasional spells where he's not on his best game. And he's still top-tier. He'll get it worked out...
brutalbrutus
* Ace Member *
Did anyone else notice the large amount of stupid people in the chat that thought jomez did the livestreams last year?...smh
This site is my social media. Reading tripe, like that chat board, makes my head freaking hurt. So many attention seeking tools. Ended up quickly watching on the flatscreen TV, taking away the chat. Damn, I do appreciate the ability to have reasonably civil and intelligent conversations here.
brutalbrutus
* Ace Member *
There are just too many people participating in the live chat. It used to be a couple dozen people with another couple dozen coming in and out. Now its a couple hundred people. That window scrolls like the endtitles of a movie on cable...
Seems to be a lot of talk about Paul putting poorly.
But according to Udisc, Paul was 90% from C1 in round 1. His numbers were pretty poor from C2, but his C1 numbers are certainly up from LVC and WTO. He definitely is still working on his stroke with the Luna, but if his C1 putting stays that high throughout the event I'm sure he'll finish near the top of the heap.
But according to Udisc, Paul was 90% from C1 in round 1. His numbers were pretty poor from C2, but his C1 numbers are certainly up from LVC and WTO. He definitely is still working on his stroke with the Luna, but if his C1 putting stays that high throughout the event I'm sure he'll finish near the top of the heap.
The one blessing of Youtube is being able to watch the stream on TV rather than on the computer, and thus, not even having to think about the chat. In the Disc Golf Planet days, on livestream.com, I was an active chatter during broadcasts. I do not miss that part of the experience one bit (especially the near constant "what hole are they on?" and "who's on the card?" posts due to the lack of graphics). Popping in here and posting reactions occasionally is much better for my health and productivity.
He was 1 for 7 from C2. That doesn't strike me as that poor. We shouldn't be taking one round's worth of stats and drawing conclusions, especially with such small sample sizes in which just one putt changes the numbers significantly. One more made putt would have put McBeth's C2% right on his season average from last year. He averaged 29% from C2 last year and 2 for 7 yesterday would be 28.6%. One missed putt from C2 shouldn't be the difference between "average" and "poor".
One other data point for the one round stats being inconclusive...not every attempt from C2 is a run at making the putt. Yesterday, Simon was 2 for 4 from C2. Both of his "misses" were intentional layups due to his position of throwing toward a basket near water. You could easily argue he didn't miss a single putt he was attempting to put in the basket even though his stats say otherwise.
I think ultimately, the reason McBeth is on the fourth card tomorrow is driving/approaching accuracy. He missed a couple fairways, went OB once, and didn't put his tee shot in C1 on enough of the reachable holes. And still shot a round that was only one throw below his rating.
chosenmatrix
Par Member
I noticed that the FPO livestream starts like 2 hours after the lead card tees off.... are they only showing the last half, or is this a mistake?
Cgkdisc
.:Hall of Fame Member:.
Eastern Time difference?
As far as Mcbeth and his switch go I want to say that I believe it is/was the biggest hurdle of all players. Paul is known to put in tons and tons of time practicing and working on his craft. Those thousands of reps with those specific discs make a transition much harder. Sure to some extent a disc is a disc but when you practice religiously you get used to the little nuances. For someone who only putts 100-200 times a week switching between putters is no big thing. To someone like Paul you have to guess he has thrown the aviar thousands if not hundreds of thousands of times, that is going to be difficult at first.
biscoe
* Ace Member *
presumably he has tens of thousands of reps with his new equipment at this point as well. it's not like he started with them in january...
Flick Maniac
* Ace Member *
Excellent point. The stats keeper could record this properly, and if in doubt, ask the player "were you going for it?"
