Re: You make the call

"Icebound" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Rod Gramlich wrote:
> ... I maintain, just make the open red go away (roll out would even be
> ok) and
> > let them decide how they are going to proceed.
>
>
>
> I wouldn't want it to appear that I agree with you :-) , but that *is*
> the call.  When he tries the red runback for 2, one or the other will be
> open, and you should be able to hold him to 2 the rest of the end... The
> worst might be that you would have to run back the yellow to prevent 3.
> 1 up with (at worst tied) coming home, not bad.
>
> 2nd (poor) choice might be to guard the red runback.
>
> Guarding the open 4 foot would be a worse choice yet.  If I were
> "agressive about steals", I might as well try to draw the button for 2nd
> shot, if it curls in there. Even if I only hide a quarter, I either get
> him to waste a rock trying to get at it, or maybe I get a chance for a
> roll the next time.
>
> If I put up the 4-foot guard, and he gets lucky with the red runback, I
> could be looking at 4,  should he hide another 1 or 2 more behind all
> that front garbage.


Agreed.

Two points:

1) Any guard in front of the four foot on the open side would have to be
tight to the rings to make it more difficult for the opponent to draw
around. This may set up a double kill of the yellows. Maybe my thinking
wasn't so right on, after all. I find it difficult to strategize in this
manner. On the ice, in the midst of a game, calls depend upon how your team
is throwing vs. how their team is throwing vs. the overall flow of the game
up to that point. You might make different calls in similar situations in
two different games. Sitting in front of my computer, in my living room, I'm
not immersed in the game.

2) Many of us curl at distinctly different levels. I am strictly a club
curler. While I like to think I could compete at a higher level, my family
and work schedules make weekend curling virtually impossible, so I don't get
the chance to bonspiel as often as I might otherwise like. At a club curling
level, angle runbacks are more likely fluke than anything else. I made one
the other night, and both teams could talk about nothing else for the next
several hours... that sounded bad. I don't mean my shot was a fluke, but
other people's are... that sounds worse... nevermind. What I'm trying to
say,  is what I said in point number one of course. The shot to be called is
entirely dependant on which shot you want to encourage your opponent to try
next. In club curling, I'm all for leaving my opponent an, apparently, easy
run back.

Paul


maybe I won't try to post in the mornings any more...