Registered: Nov 2002
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After watching the N.O/NT game this afternoon and now the Lawton/Homan game, I'm constantly shaking my head at the questionable skip calls end after end. Example, Lawton has a chance to draw a rock into a pile and hold Homan to one or even steal one, but instead she calls a long raise from her vice and clears the guards, setting up a potential 3 for Canada, which turned into a 2 after the 3rd counter ticked. Why is she removing guards without hammer?

Similar to the home version of Jeopardy, I would love to hear what the gurus of curling, Martin, Howard, Stoughton, Jacobs et-al are yelling at their TV sets for each of the calls before the skips at the Scotties put their brooms down. My own calculations say that ~ 50% of the calls in this week's game are wrong, not the best choice or even the worst option of several.

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Edmonton
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Some of the calls that Lawton made last night were ridiculously bad. Russ was mostly biting his tongue, but did criticize her a couple of times.

What the hell is Rick Folk doing? If you're going to be a coach then be a coach and tell them when their strategy is too defensive.

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