Dear Nene, please decide to come here like Lee did even though we don't have the money so we can do...

Dear Nene, please decide to come here like Lee did even though we don't have the money so we can do a sign and trade for you involving Biedrins?

Pretty please?

11 months ago dubzfan 41 comments 1 recs |

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nice job dubz. sick ass jersey i must say haha.

i actually do see him coming to the warriors, but i think it will be through some kind of trade or just straight up overpaying. im indifferent about nene though so…:p

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by bimmercirem3 on Jul 4, 2011 11:16 PM PDT reply actions

sick ass jersey

Assuming you mean "crushingly disappointing," I agree. Between the girly Copperplate, the fussy arched letters surrounding the circle, the Lakers-style collar, and the "visible pantie lines" of a wifebeater peeking through the transparent mesh of the jersey, I feel like my beloved team’s identity has been hijacked and vomited on by terrible designers. One last "screw you" from the Cohan regime, I guess. (Screw you too, Cohan regime!)

Here’s a 5-second cleanup:

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 5:00 AM PDT up reply actions

looks pretty horrible after the clean up bro

by SDtotheBay on Jul 5, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Haha, OK. You dig the Copperplate, huh?

I agree that it has a very “elegant” and “sophisticated” and “adult contemporary” feel. It’s sort of the Kenny G of typefaces…

(Note the red “G” in Copperplate — totally fitting).

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions

no I actually like your collar better

but the rest is better on our jersey imo

by SDtotheBay on Jul 5, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Well ignore my specific choice of typeface, (and hasty photoshop job).

Just imagine the word WARRIORS, alone is a bold strong face. Do you really prefer writing out the full team name — 19 characters! — in that weaselly print-ad type size and retail-y typeface? I mean, think for a a moment about:

Do you really not see how our look would be improved with the basic, tried-and-true graphic approach? Or, studly as those players are, how much less bold and strong they’d look with 19 little wimpy copperplate letters crawling all over the front of their jerseys?

If you don’t see it, that’s cool too — there’s no accounting for taste. Just trying to make you see where I’m coming from.

There will be no extra point!

by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions

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Also, in terms of material: I suspect even Jordan would look marginally less cool with “visible wife beater” lines showing beneath a semi-transparent mesh jersey. Seriously, what’s up with that?

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions

all those are sick, but we have a logo on our jersey so it looks kinda off with the small number and everything. And yeah I’ve never noticed that our jerseys were see through, that’s pretty awful.

by SDtotheBay on Jul 5, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions

It's the new jersey material

They changed it this year

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by dubzfan on Jul 5, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions

It’s the new jersey material

Well it seems more suited to the “New Jersey” shore than to a professional basketball team, imo. The faint outline of a wife-beater underneath lends a particularly NJ touch. All it needs is a mullet, gold chain, and a pack o’ cigs to round out the look.

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions

He does have an unfortunate point about the new mesh material. The VWB effect is the fault only of adidas; while I credit them somewhat for putting function above form, it does look stupid, and there’s nothing the W’s can do other than mandate that their players not wear undershirts. (And I’m not even sure whether they can do that.)

Formerly ffgolden.

by ivanbe on Jul 5, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions

I see

where your coming from. It should just say Warriors in a different font and much bigger and Golden State on the road jerseys/alt when we get them. I would like to keep the bridge on the front though

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by GSW9 on Jul 5, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m totally down with the bridge and the big circle on the front. I even really like the stanchion of the bridge running up the side of the shorts. Both very original and unique.

I guess what bothers me most is that they came so close to doing something really bold and cool and then utterly crapped the bed with pretty much the most ham-handed cheap-corporate typography imaginable (in terms of typeface, type size and type treatment).

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions

+1

The straight writing seems off

‎"There is nothing like a wise phrase or quote to help convince others that your decision makes sense." - Anon

"If you're ever in a fair fight, then your tactics suck." ಠ_ಠ

by dubzfan on Jul 5, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions

I think I agree — I threw it on there rather hastily. The type would probably look better on a subtle arc — as in the Bulls, Celtics. and Spurs logo — but not as is, daintily pussyfooting around the outside of the circle like a colony of namby-pamby ants. The two different vales of letterspacing (looser for GOLDEN STATE and tighter for WARRIORS) is also basically inexcusable from a typographic standpoint.

Let me do a subtly arced version and get back to you.

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions

OK, here's that version

Assuming anyone’s still reading in here…

Needless to say, I think the version on the left is much stronger. In clearing out the all the fussy little text-size serif letters, it allows the strong elements of the new graphic identity to shine. It also retains much more of the graphic DNA of the “THE CITY” jerseys that we all love. Basically, it looks like a basketball jersey.

(I may have to post this in diary form — something to fill the lockout void).

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 6, 2011 4:46 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

So you don't like all the unnecessary graphics I'm assuming?!

by iHypeTV on Jul 6, 2011 7:59 AM PDT up reply actions

I have some tweak ideas of my own that I was going to write a fanpost about. If you get there first, I’ll add to yours.

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by ivanbe on Jul 6, 2011 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions

I prefer the GSW one

I will have a hard time verbalizing why, but I think it looks more natural

by tafkasam on Jul 6, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions

The one on the left lacks a certain style to it

Seems bland and boring

Im sure when making them they looked at something similar and said no

‎"There is nothing like a wise phrase or quote to help convince others that your decision makes sense." - Anon

"If you're ever in a fair fight, then your tactics suck." ಠ_ಠ

by dubzfan on Jul 6, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions

Haha, OK. If they made a decision, it must be the wise one, right? I mean it’s not like the Cohan crew ever erred in any other other respect… :-P

I think there are some basic problems of readability and consistency with the existing unis, but in the end a lot of it does come down to personal taste. I tend to prefer the timeless “bland and boring” simplicity of unis like Bulls, Celtics, Spurs, Yankees, Jets, etc. Others respond better to mannered graphic futzing that may lend “a certain style.”

A certain stylishness FTW!!!

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 6, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions

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That said, I’m not 100% sold on the typeface shown in mine, either. I think it’s helluva lot more attractive than Copperplate, but ultimately it shares one of its fundamental flaws: it’s a typeface (Gotham, in this case), rather than a custom designed wordmark. A proper, handmade wordmark might lend some of the character (or “certain style”) you crave.

I guess what I’m proposing is a direction rather than I specific design. I think getting rid of all the tiny type and replacing with a single bold word would be a huge improvement. If there were any design merit at all in trying to cram 21 characters on the front of a sports jersey, I suspect that the Warriors wouldn’t be the only team in the history of the major sports to attempt it.

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 6, 2011 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions

I never noticed that the raptor himself is wearing a way better jersey than the player is. A giant R would have been a huge improvement.

On another, completely unrelated note: I wonder how many generations of the Jurassic Park era have been fooled into thinking “Raptors” are just dinosaurs. Are there any other professional sports teams that have been named based on a pop culture reference-turned-misnomer? Ornithologists and aviculturists must loathe Steven Spielberg.

Formerly ffgolden.

by ivanbe on Jul 6, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions

so much better

soooo muuuuchh betttterrrrrrr

by AJC3317 on Jul 5, 2011 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions

it would

look better if the Warriors was around the logo better like Golden State is on our current jerseys

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by GSW9 on Jul 5, 2011 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions

How much better would we really be If it's a sign and trade..

Say we trade Ellis and Udoh for Nene, how much better does that really make us?

:GSW-707:

by OaklandsFinest30 on Jul 4, 2011 11:57 PM PDT reply actions

I would much rather have Nene at the 4

and get Lee away from us asap

by Anonymous1337 on Jul 5, 2011 4:46 AM PDT up reply actions

probably contenting for an 8th spot. not exactly a great place to be, but it’s an improvement

by AJC3317 on Jul 5, 2011 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions

no

It's lonely being the only Warriors fan at UMass :(

by j-spliff415 on Jul 5, 2011 6:35 AM PDT reply actions

Don't really want Nene

If Monta isn’t here… Would really rather see what this team can do with the added depth.

F the Po Po

by bojangles408 on Jul 5, 2011 7:17 AM PDT reply actions

Don’t really want Nene if Monta isn’t here

I’m not sure what this means. Do you want Dwight Howard if Monta isn’t here? Or is life just not worth living if Monta isn’t here?

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 7:27 AM PDT up reply actions

He looks pretty

darn good in a Warriors jersey. Like its meant to be lol

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by GSW9 on Jul 5, 2011 8:02 AM PDT reply actions

LOL!

Somebody should make one of this of Dwight Howard so I can post it on Twitter…Just to stir up some mess hahaha!

by iHypeTV on Jul 5, 2011 12:18 PM PDT reply actions

!!!

that’s what i’m saying. where all the photoshop junkies when you need em! someone do a dhoward one!

by Sudacris on Jul 5, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions

that would be awsome

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by GSW9 on Jul 5, 2011 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Sleepy, you're really becoming the resident crotchety old man of GSoM

I like our jerseys this year. Probably most of any jersey since the classic Warriors jerseys of RunTMC and a few years after.

A return to our actual colors basically with a retro fell with a modern take on these.

I never liked the navy blue/orange and thunder logos. Not the Warriors I fell in love with anyway, which is fine, cause Cohan made them pretty unlikeable.

I wouldn’t be opposed to a return to the old school though:

by tafkasam on Jul 5, 2011 3:32 PM PDT reply actions

the link u posted is basically what our jerseys SHOULD look like now. that would be fantastic

by AJC3317 on Jul 5, 2011 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Dude, I agree that the new (old) colorway rocks and that Thunder/navy/orange sucked. Did you even read my posts? I’m crotchety for very specific reasons that having nothing to do with color or Thunder. Here’s a hint:

Now, I want you to specifically defend (1) the teeny-tiny type size; (2) the 19 characters (or 20-21 if you count he number); (3) the choice of Copperplate, and (4) the VWL beneath the transparent mesh.

Son. ;-)

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by Sleepy Freud on Jul 5, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions