Louisville team photo

JasonEvans

Host, The Duke Basketball Roundup
Look, I don’t know what thread this should go in, so I’m starting a new one. But this must be talked about.

Louisville took a team photo… it did not go well.
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Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio had some thoughts…
 
The team later retook the photo and posted a new one.

The person responsible for the old photo must have been fired. Ha!!

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For the first photo, my guess is that top right guy (6-7 non-scholarship player Spencer Legg) forgot his jersey and borrowed #1 from his teammate (6-6 Colorado transfer J'Vonne Hadley), and the photographer said, "If we put them on opposite sides, no one will notice." Then he took the picture, just as all the players were thinking, "What a terrible idea. Everyone will notice."

For BOTH photos, I'll say what most of DBR usually says when an Adidas team is playing a game: "Wow, those are ugly uniforms." The lighting/filtering in the second photo makes them look more clean and neat, but the letters and numbers still look crooked, and the fit is bad on some of the players.

Then there's the shorts issue. Are all roster photos this awkward? The people sitting at the ends have slightly angled their bodies in the second photo, but there's nothing to be done in the middle. Based on these photos, I think player #6 (Charleston transfer Reyne Smith) should play 40 minutes a game -- anything to keep him from sitting on the bench.

Zero and 93 (helluva bball #) didn't get the memo for the second shot.

Can't tell you about #0 (Charleston transfer James Scott), but #93 is BYU transfer Noah Waterman, and at that moment he's thinking, "Wait, my old school is offering AJ Dybantsa HOW much money?"
 
As a professional photographer, I can explain this.

They were getting ready for the photo and testing the ISO for the ambient light in the gym while the strobes were being set up. All of the images are bluetoothed/tethered to a laptop. This test shot (the first photo) accidentally got sent out with the final images and someone posted it.

No one got fired, except maybe for the person who posted this photo.

The real photo (the second one) was taken once the lights were set up and was taken a few minutes after the first photo, the test shot, which they used to get a reading on light, composition, etc. The photog saw the identical uniform numbers in the test shot and had the guy change.
 
The first pic was taken and posted by a media member. It was a Kentucky fan who found it and posted the pic to Reddit, and it went viral from there.
 
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