I agree that the BBP was just hooking too much: light was fine but unreliable. He had tons of trouble getting a solid pocket hit(except for the 10th frame) because, as I saw it, the BBP ws just hooking too much. He might have needed to move slightly further inside or change to the BB solid, for an earlier read, and less overall hook.
This 41 ft pattern was flat but by no means oily. Medium-strong control balls were the order of the day all week long, while keeping the ball inside the 10 board all the way down, on both sides of the lane. The less hand you had the less deep you had to play, as long as you could get it thru the heads.
I think the only reason Barnes succeeded with a ball as theoretically weak as the Throttle-Up, a polished, medium oil, low-load particle, was he was using so much roll with his release. That's the way it looked to me, anyway.
