New Dame Adidas Commercial

One thing I hate about how advertising is these days... is you really only saw the shoe for one second in the whole spot.

 

Agreed. Another reason he shoulda gone with the swoosh. And they don't make (as many) ugly shoes. I do dig my Crazy Quicks though. One of the best bball kicks I've ever had.

 

Adidas is the way to go... he has much more of a chance of getting recognized, instead of just "being another" at Nike. Dame is smart.

 

Maybe this would have been better and made some around here like it?

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Just another like Rose, Wall, Lin, Teague, Rubio, Conley, Dragic? If he truly wanted to differentiate himself, he shoulda gone with under armor (like Curry or Jennings)

We all know Dame went to the stripes because of the money they offered him-- nothing else, and nothing really wrong with that. Just their ads aren't as good as wieden kennedy coulda made for him.

 

I gueess we differ. I don't like Nike or their commercials. So, there's that. lol.

And lets put it this way, he must have been told they were going to pimp him hard because I never knew Lin, Teague, Rubio, Conley, or anybody but wall and Rose were on Adidas. That says more to me, IMO.

But again, we'll agree to disagree. I know partially it had to do with the money, I mean, damn, $100 mil... but I think he knew that they would give him the biggest bump too...

 

James Harden? No thanks.

 

Really, only Wall or Rose belong with Dame in terms of marketability on that list. Lin is popular with the Asian community, but overall he's not someone you're going to use for an international campaign.

Teague, Rubio, and Conley? Definitely not.

Dragic is a dammed fine player, but he's not marketable. The guy has about as much personality as a brick wall. Even Rose really isn't very personable. He has always struck me as very closed off and private. Dame has the kind of personality and knack for social interaction that can make someone a star outside of the game of basketball. He uses twitter all the time, he interacts with the fans, and he is outgoing. I think Adidas might put him ahead of Rose in terms of who they think is #1 on their players, but he needs to keep backing it up on the court.

 

I agree with all this, but at the time when they initially signed their contracts, they were all in a similar boat. Only guys who were supposed to break out based on what adidas paid em were Rose and Rubio (both massive 10yr + deals)

 

Harden has the on-screen charisma of a doorknob.

However Barkley and Pippen > The annoying Rachel Nichols, so it's a wash.

 

Aside from the dipshit Harden being in this, I liked this commercial better. But that's because Sir Charles makes me f'n crack up every time he talks, oh and Scottie was in it, lol.

Dame's was good, but, I think it was a little over-done on the whole movie themed aspect, it didn't make me chuckle as much.

 

Lame concept from the start. The writing just made a bad thing worse.

 

Well, and honestly I would be a little offended if I was Dame because it's basically saying that he would be working at a movie theater if he wasn't good at basketball.

 

Yeah, I'm afraid Lillard's commercial is embarrassingly bad. I can't think of a good Adidas ad, actually. Gone are the days of Barkley posting up Death and singing in Italian.

 

Dame's Karl Malone commercial....Awesome
This one sucks. The Barkley and Harden one is pretty good.

It will be pretty hard to top the first one.

 

The nachos comment at the end made me chuckle, but overall, it felt like a rough draft submitted for a class.

 

It's riffing on the trope use by the Chirs/Cliff Paul ads. I like Lillard's better, but probably only because Lillard > CP3 and adidas > State Farm.