Barney Reed Jr. vs. David Zhuang

2004 U.S. National Table Tennis Tournament

Las Vegas, Nevada

17 December 2004

Page Updated 04/24/2006 08:35 PM

Barney Reed getting coached before the final game 7 decider.

 

 

Group 2 Quarterfinal match

Barney Reed vs. David Zhuang - Game 1 part a (left side) - Video 5.1 Mbytes, Duration 1:58

Barney Reed vs. David Zhuang - Game 1 part b (right side) - Video 3.8 Mbytes, Duration 1:27

Barney Reed vs. David Zhuang - Game 3 part a - Video 4.8 Mbytes, Duration 1:51

Barney Reed vs. David Zhuang - Game 3 part b - Video 1.2 Mbytes, Duration 0:28

Barney Reed vs. David Zhuang - Game 4 part a - Video 909 kBytes, Duration 0:21

Barney Reed Jr. gets coaching before game 7 - Video Clip 1.4 Mbytes, Duration 0:56 

David Zhuang vs. Barney Reed Jr. - Game 7 -Realplayer Video 8.6 Mbytes, Duration 5:09

 

USATT Day 3 write-up by Larry Hodges

David Zhuang d. Barney J. Reed, -9,5,-13,6,-7,9,5

 

 

Barney Reed Jr. serving.

Barney Reed serves in game 3.  Tied 1-1 he is down 5 to 4 in his match against David.

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David Zhuang using a high toss serve.

4 58322 12/31/9999 Zhuang, David Yong-Xiang 2651 NJ 11/28/2004

Paul Kavoc - Stump the Ump - Match Umpire

Barney Reed Sr. cheers his son on.

 

Barney's girlfriend, Michelle Do watches the match.

Match comments:

Marco Borrillo: Is that Barney Reed in the picture or Ray Liotta?

 
 

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Ray Liotta or Barney Reed?

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Glueless: I saw Ray Liotta played against Shao Yu at the nationals and he destroyed himself 1-11 by whiffing everything on the first game.  I then saw him got yellow-carded by Azmy on the second game.  I also saw him getting into some argument with Cheng Ying Hua before the match (Cheng Ying Hua was preparing to coach Shao Yu, I think) and he was summarily dismissed by Cheng Ying Hua as well. 

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Marco Borrillo: I agree that his mental game is horrible.  I was just watching his match with David Zuang that Rob posted.  In the 7th game he loses a point and throws his paddle into the barrier.  Why would he do that?  Insanity. 

I thought he had a very good chance of winning if he could just keep his head together.  Also, all his loops appeared to be predictable.  From the tape, it seems that he looped strictly into David's forehand or backhand, mostly forehand.  I rarely saw any loops go into the middle.  Actually, one time he does a backhand loop into the middle and gets the point easily.  But I guess there was so much noise inside of his own head that he didn't notice.  It was the last shot into the middle that I saw. 

I think if Barney really wants to improve now he needs psychological help.  I would recommend a sports psychologist.  Maybe get some Tony Robbins tapes.  It's embarrassingly obvious that he needs to work on this.  I know people 1000 rating points less than him that have a superior mental game. 

Marco

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Sean P. O'Neill: Many say that table tennis is at least 80% mental. If you constantly throw your paddle in disguest, bang it on the table, pull your pants down clearly you are not in control of your thoughts or emotions.

If you are not in control of your thoughts or emotions you are unlikely to beat better players. Yes, you can beat worse players but upsetting better players will be very difficult unless they have a meltdown.

This just proves the point that good mental coaching doesn't start at 2500 but at age 10 when the habits are developed and ingrained into the foundation.

Have you ever seen Cheng get pissed off at himself when he plays? He never plays more than one opponent at a time. That in my mind is the reason he can play 2700+ without much practice.

Sean P. O'Neill

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Nov/Dec Magazine Tahl Leibovitz:  writes:

Barney seems to never play the middle.  I find that so odd that someone playing as long as him never exploits the middle.

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That was a very intersting match.  I really wish Barney would have won that match.  David was playing very safe and blocking mostly to the middle.  The next big match David and Barney play, I think barney will win.

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