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  1. Can’t believe this Jazz team not only managed to beat the Nuggets, but did so by 20 points. And the young talent on the team actually looked…kinda…good? At the very least, they played very tough and were much more entertaining than I expected them to be. It’s one game and I still think they’re going to be a win/loss dumpster fire this season, but 1) it’s just nice to win one and 2) it might actually be a fun dumpster fire to watch after all.
  2. Yeah, coaching attire has kind of taken a weird turn lately. I don’t mind the pivot away from suits - I can imagine coaches are much more comfortable on the court without them - but I haven’t really seen anything a coach has worn since then and said “yep, that’s what they should be wearing.” I feel like they need something a little more deliberate than “here’s your generic bad quarter zip in team colors”, but certainly less lax and silly than “here’s your team issued warmup jacket and sweats.” On that note, Will Hardy’s attire is a head-scratcher because it’s really kind of cool outfit in a vacuum, but it’s also probably too casual for sideline wear to the point that he really looks like a fan that had wandered onto the court and snuck into team huddles. It doesn’t help that the purple logo on the black shirt wasn't as strong a contrast and was a bit too understated, making it look like a plain black shirt from certain distances on the broadcast. As nice of an outfit that it is, I don’t think that’s the solution to coaching attire either.
  3. That was Michael Kay, who is the PBP for the Yankees on YES Network, of all teams. I don’t know anything about him as a person so he could be a good guy, but he’s easily my least favorite PBP guy in the league. Something about his voice (when he’s actually speaking and not excessively pausing) just has this “dude who wears Under Armour exclusively, won’t stop talking about his car, and posts only Crypto articles on his LinkedIn” streak to it and the fact he’s not only calling playoff games, but is somehow the voice of the Yankees absolutely baffles me.
  4. That’s why I said “throwback-inspired” rather than direct throwback; I don’t want the old logo back as-is, it needs a fair bit of cleaning up to work today. But I do like your suggestion of splitting the difference, I think the right Dolphins logo can be found in that area. And definitely agree that it ought to follow the general shape of the 90’s logo, which was much better structurally. My biggest gripes with the Dolphins current logo is the belly flop position that I can’t unsee, and it also looks really awkward and sometimes over-tilted on a helmet. It’s just bad in concept and function.
  5. I feel like the Dolphins are a case of really good uniforms, really bad logo. I have no problem with the uniforms themselves (I really like them, actually), but if a uniform change to something throwback-inspired is what it would take to get rid of the belly flop dolphin once and for all, then I favor that option. It’s ultimately better to have your whole identity in order rather than just a part of it, and I feel like that switch would cover all the bases well.
  6. IIRC, Ben’s either dating or married to the head of Jazz social media, so I feel like there’s some sort of “like these or you’re sleeping on the couch” ultimatum at play here. That’s the only explanation I’ve got for his defense of an obvious dumpster fire. That off-center 2 on Sexton’s jersey is burned into my brain now. If that thing remains into the season, that’s one more L you can add to the, I dunno, 55 they’re already bound to get this year.
  7. Yeah, this was always one of my fears for the program. The first fear was that the program would severely dilute teams’ brands (which has happened), but the second was definitely the potential for ideas to run out quickly (which is happening now in real time, team by team). In my opinion, the NBA could really stand to re-evaluate its uniform program and either scrap the city program altogether, or replace it with something that sticks much more to teams’ core brands.
  8. Not a big fan of the Sixers city uniform at all, but I have to admit, I love the court. I’m really digging the vintage key nod and wood staining.
  9. Yes, it comes and goes for me but lately I’ve had a fair bit of issues on mobile. The biggest problem has been that the site seems to crash occasionally when typing a post/reply. No other actions have caused problems that I’ve noticed. A couple of days ago I had to refresh the page something like six times just to type a reply out. Clearly this post made it out so it’s working at the present moment, but it’s an issue I’ve noticed for sure.
  10. So… I really like the idea of the blue/red horizontal stripe. I don’t mind that at all. I’m not into using black though, as black with blue/red has been pretty strongly cornered by the Clippers lately and this is swerving a bit too close into LAC territory (granted, it’s a territory that shouldn’t exist, but it does). I’m also not a fan of three-letter abbreviations on jerseys, and the left aligned front numbers look really awkward. This all being said, I like the horizontal stripes so much that I’d be okay with an improved version of this. Keep the stripes, make the base navy, spell out “DETROIT”, then right align the numbers, and I think they would have really had something.
  11. Georgia in red vs. Oregon in green? I wonder how colorblind viewers are enjoying that one. Nothing against either uniform in a vacuum, but red vs. green usually isn’t a great idea.
  12. This is, unfortunately, the 100% truth. It look me longer to see that than others, but the fallout of the Clippers series collapse and last year’s not-so-subtle regression was very clear writing on the wall that this core wasn’t going any farther than it already had. Ultimately, they had a great deal of individual talent, but the team itself just didn’t gel and wasn’t really built for a sustained run. I think that’s precisely what makes this tear down easier to swallow for me than I would have expected; as much as it sucks to fall short again and watch the Gobert/Mitchell era end, this step is absolutely necessary for any shot at a title down the road. The team frankly needed to be built in a much different way than it was, and the hauls so far give them the flexibility to work that out in a way they couldn’t a couple of months ago.
  13. First thing’s first: I’m going to miss Spida. He was one of the most fun-to-watch players to ever play here, and did a lot for the underprivileged in the Salt Lake community. Cleveland, you’re getting a good one. Onto what this means for Utah, this is clearly a rebuild and it’s clearly going to be tough sledding for a couple or more years. That said, the Jazz got about as great a haul to kick off a rebuild as you would hope from Gobert and Mitchell. Consider that they turned those two players into this: Collin Sexton Lauri Markkanen Ochai Agbaji (2022 14th pick) Malik Beasley Leandro Bolmaro Walker Kessler (2022 22nd pick) Jarred Vanderbilt Patrick Beverley, who was then flipped for Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson 7 1st-round picks 3 1st-round swaps …and that’s without even trading Bogdanovic or Conley (yet). I’m pretty excited by this haul and it certainly does a lot to make the sting of losing Gobert and Mitchell easier to bear. Maybe it’s the optimist in me, but I think the Jazz are now set up perfectly for a rebuild and it hopefully should be of the 2-4 year type rather than longer.
  14. I hadn’t gotten much into Soccer until a few years ago, so I too am not as versed in US kit tradition as others may be, but in looking at the list above of past kits, the only ones that look “right” as far as what I imagine the US kit should be are the Waldos and sashes. All others don’t provide the same feeling, they just seem kind of “there” to me. If I had my way, I’d go some variation of Waldo as the primary kit, navy with white sash as the secondary, and darker red with navy sash as a third.
  15. Two thoughts, one on-topic and one off-topic: 1. If Anaheim insists on keeping this color scheme, then compromising with the duck mask as a primary is the way to make it work, IMO. And by “making it work” I mean “not ideal, but it will do.” It’s still eggplant + jade + duck mask over everything, for me. 2. Palm trees on the cover of a hockey video game is really jarring. I get it, there’s a Ducks player on the cover and yeah, “grow the game etc etc”, but do they have to be standing in front of palm trees? It just seems forced is all.
  16. The powder blue/gold color scheme for the Nuggets never, ever looked right to me. They looked like a team that moved from Southern California to Denver right before the season started, but didn’t have enough time to change thier colors or uniforms. I don’t think it helped matters that they immediately followed an identity that was much more “rugged” for lack of a better term and fit a miner theme really well, as opposed to looking a bit too “fun in the sun” by comparison. I don’t know, it just never clicked for me the way it did for others.
  17. In all honesty, this is darn near perfect. You took the best parts of multiple eras and blended them together very, very well. I also love the new blue and the Denver flag inspiration on the sleeves. Everything is working so well together here. The only critique I have is very minor: I’d swap the colors on the blue pants stripe to white/orange/white to match the helmet. Other than that, I really can’t see anything else I’d change. Fantastic job!
  18. Those edits are perfect. That’s something the Dolphins could keep for the rest of time. Awesome job!
  19. ….Followed by Tiny Tim. Lots of, uh, source material to work with there. T’Wolves Through the Tulips. I’ll see myself out.
  20. I think this is an excellent start! It’s pretty close to being right on. The only two things I’d call out are the tail and eye; I think the part of the tail that leads into the flipper(? - don’t know what it’s called haha) is a little too fat. Notice how it narrows and tapers down into the flipper(?) on the other logos, I think something more like that will nail it. And then with the eye, I think it’s sitting a bit too high up in the head. If it’s brought down a little closer to the mouth, I think that will be a bit more anatomically correct. With those two edits, I think you’ll be on your way to a perfect Dolphins logo. Again, really great start here! You’re absolutely on the right track.
  21. No flak from me; I’ve always considered blue and gold/bronze to be a suitably “federal” color scheme anyways (different shades here, but you get the idea): The color scheme never looked out of place in Washington to me. If anything, I’d argue it fit Washington. I truly think the Wizards (and Capitals) should’ve kept it. I’m really stoked to see it back for the Wizards this year.
  22. In a vacuum, the Warriors uniform isn’t bad at all. Looks like a pretty straightforward, classic-type uniform, which I generally like. The problem I have with it, though, is that I just don’t get it. It’s the “why” of it that isn’t landing, much more so than that “what.” It looks very out of place in the team’s branding and uniform rotation, and I’m just not sure of the justification for it.
  23. Only two games in bone vs. eight games in white…
  24. This is really solid! Your update is much cleaner and gives the package a much needed modernization. I really like this. My only critique would be that the AT&T logo being in a white box to the left is a little distracting, it tends to draw my attention a little too much. I wonder if a solution could be to remove the white box (leaving a transparent background), or if you changed the box to black? That’s really the only thing I’d change though. Everything else is very solid and would be a huge improvement over what ATTSN does now. Great work!
  25. The kerning on the text is an absolute nightmare. Also, the “E” and “H” in “ICEHOGS” doesn’t look like it’s rotating on the axis correctly either, and the second “R” and the “D” of “ROCKFORD” is closer to the edge of the roundel ring than the rest of the letters. I don’t think the Type on a Path tool was used here like it should’ve been. That’s really poor quality.
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