Take a look at the Crazy Explosive 2017 Primeknit, then take a look at the sneaker pictured here. Pretty similar right?
Well, when you’ve knitted a sock-like ankle collar onto the hightop version, you can always just tell the computer to stop knitting. That appears to be what adidas did to create the Crazy Explosive 2017 Primeknit Low.
The Low build is identical to the high, minus the sock. It’s a very efficient design, and one that will probably save adidas some money in manufacturing costs. The hightop build scored great in our performance reviews so the lowtop should please anyone that wasn’t a fan of the somewhat stiff compression collar.
The Lakers’ Brandon Ingram and the Celtics’ Jaylen Brown have both been wearing the Crazy Explosive 2017 Primeknit Low in their team colors, as well as last year’s Crazy Explosive Low.
There is no official word on when the Crazy Explosive 2017 Primeknit Low will release or what it will cost. Stay tuned for updates.
A bit, it looks much more like a performance tool than a sneaker you know (because it is)
The 2016 Crazy Explosive Low was quite handsome imo, great silhouette and the ADO builds were cool (but way overpriced)
I’d just get the original low. Its basically the same thing, but better looking and on discount.
The 2017s lows are more similar to the mids than the 2016s for sure. The 17 lows are not just the mids with the ankle collar knitted shorter. Their side panels (structure and padding) are shorter and there are only 4 lace loops. Even with these slightly larger changes it should be cheaper and easier for adidas to make the 17 lows compared to the 16 lows. Unfortunately I’m not liking the look of these 17 lows. I’d rather have the 16s lows because they are near perfect for me in terms of looks and performance.
Agreed, was gonna say there was more to it than just chopping the sock. I think the last lace row is also set a bit further back. I’m not sure if “efficient design” is the best way to prescribe it, but attention to detail.
Very similar, and it does look like the collar was simply chopped, but I think in reality, the only shared portion of production is the tooling.
I’m still loving my CE 2017 PK Black Scarlet, the dopest colorway for CE 2017 PK. It fits very one to one with my feet. In my opinion CE 2016 Low has more aesthetic feel than this CE 2017 PK Low.
WTF is Mozgov doing?
The only adidas shoe I’m looking forward to is the “leaked” Harden 2 and possibly Dame 4 in a dope CW, Rip City of only it had a non-white outsole. But adidas is putting performance over aesthics in basketball sneakers, unfortunately since they have the cushioning to beat Zoom and Air. Kyrie 3 and PG1 probably the best looking off-court option out right now excluding Chinese brands.
I think that they’re a little different other than the extended knit. The mid for sure has a molded ankle like the non PK version. It looks like to me that the lows don’t feature that at all. Just my thoughts. I could be wrong.