I have purchased three pairs of Player One Plus shoes in total, but as I mentioned in my previous unboxing, the price of 1099 is indeed too expensive for it… Half a year later, I finally waited for a generous brother who was willing to lend me his Player One Plus for a few games to experience, which is the Dawn color scheme featured in this shoot. For detailed descriptions of appearance and other aspects, you can refer to my initial test: SPO Player 1 Unboxing: No Sponsorship, Let’s Take a Look at the True Face of This Internet Famous Shoe Together. Today’s article will mainly focus on its field experience, and there will be a series of long-term tests to come, so stay tuned.
This “Dawn” color scheme is very similar to Li-Ning’s Way of Wade series because there is no logo on the side of the Player One. From a distance on the court, it’s easy to mistake it for the Quancheng 11 if you have poor eyesight (that night, both the hook and Ningzi had too much to drink…). Jokes aside, since the evaluation must be objective and fair, setting aside personal opinions about the SPO brand, I can give this shoe an 8-9 score (with the assembly speed system). In summary: after a short period of breaking in, there is no discomfort when wearing, it fits very well with the modern quick and agile playing style of basketball shoes, and there is no slipping on clean wooden floors, and the midsole response is also quite sensitive, with immediate stop and go.
In terms of the overall texture of the shoe, SPO is indeed unparalleled. The full shoe face is woven, and with the support of external technology similar to ‘Flywire’, the shoe’s wrapping is not extreme, but the support and basic wrapping feeling are fine, and I personally think this is quite a plus. I used the speed midsole throughout the actual combat, and when I first put it on, I felt a sensation of my foot being closely attached to the floor, which was slightly uncomfortable, but there was no discomfort throughout the actual combat, including after the game, and the gait guidance and transition were also quite natural. The preliminary judgment is that the shock absorption performance and feedback of the speed module are no problem.
Through several versions of improvements, it is obvious that although the Player One Plus and Kobe 8 have a 90% similar appearance, the shoe body lines and detailed design are completely different. The first pair of shoelace holes on the toe extend forward to accommodate the wider foot shape of Asians, but the downside is that the original round shoelaces are easy to loosen, and you need to frequently bend over to tighten them during actual combat (in fact, a good shoelace system greatly affects the daily experience of wearing shoes. My standard for shoes I often wear is that the shoelace system must be easy to adjust and not easy to loosen, a detail that many shoes do not pay attention to). As a pair of shoes priced at 1099, I think the details should be more strict.
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