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adidas CrazyLight Boost 2.5 Low James Harden PE – Detailed Review

The James Harden PE of the adidas CrazyLight Boost 2.5 is one of the cleanliest colorways i’ve seen in quite some time.

Even though James Harden and the Rockets just got eliminated from the playoffs, that won’t stop us from talking about his PE’s of the adidas CrazyLight Boost 2.5 he wore during his short playoff run.

Enjoy the detailed review with an on foot look and stay tuned for the performance review in the coming weeks.

You can pickup a pair for yourself at adidas.com for $130.

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9 comments
  1. I think they went with the thinner EVA(?) version just to make the Boost and AdiPrene+ more felt. If I remember correctly, the Rose 6 runs that too. The thicker PU version was ideal for the 4 because there was pretty much no cushion in that shoe.

    A gripe for me is how these insoles are detailed with cuts, but there isn’t any variation of density or anything. Also hate how the one in the Crazy 8 is the thicker version, but runs with a felt top finish. Shoes get hot just wearing them, and usually heat is never an issue for me.

    1. honestly, the cushion and outsole is pretty much the same. personally, I don’t have any bad thing to say about Adiprene+. it is a great cushion material and I think Adidas used it for court feel as Boost is more higher off the ground kinda cushion. although personally, I would have preferred them to have used Bounce on the forefoot being a new cushion and all and to differentiate it from other CLB shoes being a signature shoe and all. if there was one issue I would have addressed with this shoe, it’s the traction design. it’s too shallow.

  2. Just got mine today. Very happy with the shoe except it’s a bitch to get on but probably will get loosen up with more wear. http://i.imgur.com/ktZp072.jpg are these the Converse D Wade’s you are talking about? I still wear these once in a while as you can tell they are old but still alive.

  3. Not one of my favorite video reviews. Way too much time spent on the aesthetics. We can see the shoe. A quick 360 view would have shown us all we needed to see and we’d have gotten a better look at the performance details were reviewed. I didn’t need all that editorializing or nostalgia about some vaguely related (read: unrelated) Converse model. That chewed up like half the video and it felt like even more.

    The only really informative part was the bit about the fit and even that didn’t really pan out. I went true to size in these and they fit fine, going down half a size would have been prohibitively narrow and unnecessary in terms of length.

    On a related note, how come we never see Adidas with a Boost/Bounce combo? Or did I just miss the models that have that? I thought surely the Lillard 2 Boost would have that combo but it seems like the same tooling seen here. That could be effective, I think Bounce is definitely more of a “wow” type cushioning, much more softness and rebound to it than AdiPrene. I think AdiPrene is OK but it’s best uses are on older models. Another combo we haven’t seen on a basketball shoe yet is Boost/Formotion. I liked the running models that used it and hoops opens up other possibilities for its use (perhaps a heel Boost with Formotion pods in the midfoot/forefoot). The TMac 6 and Gil Zero were great shoes, it’s a shame we didn’t see more Formotion hoops after them and now with Boost to give extra softness in one area or the other it would be a really cool combo.

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