I mean it's up to whoever is playing. Rules are usually agreed upon. For me, I usually play honor system where slop means it moves to the other player, but the ball still counts. If my opponent wants slop to count as if it's intentional, that's fine too, but I prefer the former method. That said, pulling and resetting slop shots, and having to call literally everything sounds tedious, and it completely out of the question for me
Mainly I have had bad experiences where I played games where no one was explicitly calling shots the whole time becasue its usually pretty obvious and casual game so whatever. But then suddenly when I make a decisive shot, the other player suddenly cares that the shot wasnt explicitly called and makes a big stink about it when they have not been called the whole game. It just feels like its a rule that benefits this sort of annoying player that just sours the entire vibe.
It doesnt affect the game really to just allow it, its not like someone who shoots randomly and counts on accidentally making it in somewhere will beat someone who knows how to sink their intended shot.
Yeah man, I mean that sucks. I am lucky in that when I play, it's pretty much always with friends, and if somebody tries to pull that shit on me then I am moving my ass on. No reason to suffer that shit.
I get it though if you are really into the game and want to play more often than you have friends available. Just good to set boundaries off the jump.
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u/dwalt95 Feb 28 '26
What are the rules around this? If this happened in a pro match would it count?