I see, yeah that makes sense.

[Total, absolute sense. Did he actually buy the excuse? Yeah, he probably did!] Just remember, the gutters on either side of your lane are your absolute enemies. Traps designed to lure your ball in.

[Spoken in a tone that suggests that he might(?) know what he's doing! All the while his glasses-clad eyes continue to watch the ball she just rolled.]

The best thing you can do is to focus on knocking over all the pins ahead of you in order to defeat your foe.