Tore 343 Posted October 15 Not a fan. Of the bunch I actually prefer the Icon the most, but it's not a great look for them. I expected they'd go a more Canadian route keepin the association and icon white and red. The black outline around Raptors on the association is not pretty. And no Toronto wordmark at all?? 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IceCap 21,747 Posted October 16 Emphasizing black was a mistake. A straight reproduction of the red and white unis they won the title in with "RAPTORS" in place of "NORTH" was all they had to do. This is significantly worse than that would have been. It's still fine, but they overthought it. 11 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VikWings 1,538 Posted October 16 The black one is the best of the bunch (until the purple is released.) The shorts are terrible. They've downgraded each time since the Vince Carter set (I'm someone who loves the half purple/half black jersey). The Bosh-era ones sans purple were fine, if not still good, the previous set was meh and these are just bad (like I said above the black is decent but the wordmark staying in the chevron shape ruins it) 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IceCap 21,747 Posted October 16 9 hours ago, Ark said: I wish these were purple, but I like them. I'm quite content leaving purple in the past, and the occasional throwback game. Quote However, why not have a TORONTO wordmark? Toronto happens to not only have an odd number of letters, it also has the exact number of letters as RAPTORS. It would fit perfectly on this jersey. The Raptors have, since 2003, emphasized RAPTORS over TORONTO on the uniforms to appeal to as much as Canada as possible. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sayahh 808 Posted October 16 18 hours ago, henburg said: Overall, it looks better on the players than it did as a retail replica, the chevron is a cool feature for Toronto to embrace. It just feels a bit underwhelming, like it's just missing one little thing to help push it over the top. Maybe it's the basic red-black color balance, maybe it's the simplicity of the shorts design. I'm not sure. On the kind of interesting side of things, the black alternates seem to take the jagged pinstripes from the classic uniforms and turn them into a sort of side panel. That's sort of an uninspired use for that element IMO. Jagged pinstripes seem to be sublimated into the black jersey in addition to the red ones on the side panel. 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Webfooter 933 Posted October 16 Really think they should have used the black jersey as the main template and ended up with the jagged pinstripes on all the jerseys instead of just the one. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buc 2,314 Posted October 16 The Raptors are now officially the (pre/re-brown) Padres of the NBA--they can't figure out how they wanna look. It looks like they're continually chasing tends, and that never ends well. (What I wish would end well, now, is all those unnecessary uniform designations. There was nothing wrong with "home/road/alternate/"--miss me with all that extra #DoinTheMost.com stuff.) 13 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pelicanfan 1,090 Posted October 17 The red jerseys have grown on me. But I feel like the black jerseys were a missed opportunity to make the pinstripes at least more noticeable like a lighter grey or even red. They're not even that noticeable up close step a feet away and they're invisible 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FinsUp1214 5,408 Posted October 17 3 minutes ago, pelicanfan said: But I feel like the black jerseys were a missed opportunity to make the pinstripes at least more noticeable like a lighter grey or even red. They're not even that noticeable up close step a feet away and they're invisible Yeah, at first I didn’t see pinstripes at all. It took me looking at an up-close picture for me to catch them, and even then it was faint. Even still, that uniform is the best of an underwhelming bunch by far, and I wish the new set had been built around its look instead. Arch the word mark in a rounded fashion instead of a chevron shape, make the pinstripes more pronounced, then make a white and red version, and they would’ve had something really good. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TenaciousG 674 Posted October 21 On 10/16/2020 at 4:04 PM, Buc said: The Raptors are now officially the (pre/re-brown) Padres of the NBA--they can't figure out how they wanna look. It looks like they're continually chasing tends, and that never ends well. (What I wish would end well, now, is all those unnecessary uniform designations. There was nothing wrong with "home/road/alternate/"--miss me with all that extra #DoinTheMost.com stuff.) ^ This.... Although unlike the Padres there is no clear answer for what they should go to full time. I don’t understand why they didn’t just stick with the set they won a championship in. At least there’s some sentimental value with those. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LA Fakers+ LA Snippers 435 Posted October 21 4 hours ago, TenaciousG said: ^ This.... Although unlike the Padres there is no clear answer for what they should go to full time. I don’t understand why they didn’t just stick with the set they won a championship in. At least there’s some sentimental value with those. The Vince Carter 1999-2003 set. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TenaciousG 674 Posted October 22 5 hours ago, LA Fakers+ LA Snippers said: The Vince Carter 1999-2003 set. I kind of agree with that... except they won the title in red and black. But I’m not a Raptor fan, so I can’t speak for them. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
