I’ll go to my grave insisting that the J-Note is one of the all-time coolest logos across the sporting landscape and could write a 50 page thesis on how the organization has botched that since the beginning of the D-Will era uni’s.
With that being said, these uni’s are an upgrade. It’s evident that the mountain branding is here to stay and I will admit that I think the white uni’s are the best thing they’ve done in awhile. The addition of baby blue on the trim really pops and I’d give those uni’s a “B” grade which should be seen as a massive win for Ryan Smith’s early track record with Jazz uni’s.
Sadly, they massively ****ed up what could have been a home run with the black uni’s. Like you said, just embrace the J-Note awesomeness and give us 1 cool uni that’s all about the J-Note and leave the mountains alone. Giving us a new black mountain uni and slapping the J-Note over it looks like someone was editing in photoshop, never got back to a half finished idea, and decided “screw it, we’re outta time.”