Dr Damon, again, don't get me wrong - I am not saying the shoe is worth the money, AT ALL, with Zoom or without. I guess, from my perspective of doing performance reviews, I am just saying, on the performance side, the Foam works and feels as good as the Zoom units in most shoes now. I agree, leaving Zoom out and adding, well, NOTHING, takes a serious set of cajones, and they still sold out, so I can't wait, from a consumer side, to see what happens next year. From a performance side, if it performs well, I could care less, but again, I got in a lucky situation on getting mine. I would not, NOT, pay the retail for these, even if they had Zoom.
And a $500 pack at that. Lol at nike with their whack pack ideas. So if the xx9 is $225 they are charging $275 for a retro from 1995 because it's baby blue? Sad thing is it will still sell out and probably resell for double.
100% this. I hardly buy retro Js or Nikes due to the quality (unless it's something I feel really nostalgic about) but when I bought the retro zoom gloves last year I was extremely disappointed with the "zoom" air it had. It was so pitiful I'm surprised they still called it zoom. It was about the size of a quarter and you could really feel the lack of cushioning compared to the OG. I was raging since it was my favourite shoe (wore my mine to ground) and nike managed to ruin it with their cost cutting measures. Such a shame since the rest of the shoe was pretty decent and as close to OG as you could expect from nike.
haha I know. I was in highschool so I kind of fell for the hype and seeing my favorite nba player with them I just had to have them. that was the only shoe I ever had that I just couldn't stand. also this really worries me about retros. I bet a lot of our kicks don't even have an air unit in them. none of us are willing to dissect them to find out and JB doesn't even really advertise them as having it now days, so they can't really be sued or anything. the way I see it, shoes are exactly what they are... just shoes. Nike will continually sell us the "technology" thing year after year and the majority of consumers will follow it.
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Pure insanity and hype brother, that is just unreasonable, dropping half a grant on a pack I will never do, no matter what kicks are inside, they better be walking on their own if they cost that much.
