Echelon - What Do You Think?

jpleazme

Bench Warmer
Decided to pick up the one & only box my favorite local card shop had on the shelf. The shop is real small. Guy says he only have about 10-15 basketball collectors.. most are in the military and do not collect that often.. mostely, beacause they are always deployed..

The owner was supposed to be holding for somebody else, but the guy was short of funds ad asked to hold it. I said I had the money to spend... the the shop owner got on the phone and ordered another one from LA, before I handed over my ATM card and broke it open...

First pack was dissappointing..

2nd pack: Tony Parker AUTO

3RD pack: Keven Durant.. too bad it's not an auto.

When I frst seen one of the All-American Patchs, I was not impressed... huge patch, small little head shop & a MC D's logo..

I fell in love with the base design, especially the white versions. I did notice chipping on one of my cards and that color bled through onto the back of one of the cards.. Luckily it rubbed off. I like the refractor type holo.. not sure what you'd call it??

PROS:
BEAUTIFUL DESIGN

CONS:
1) STICKER AUTOS
2) SERIAL #'S NOT CENTERED ON SOME CARDS.. EITHER TOO HIGH OR TOO LOW, CHECK OUT MY SHAQ IN MY CARD ALBUM...
3) REGULAR BASE CARD SER /999 (ultimate only had 499, therefore I assume, Echelon has twice as many packs??)


COMPARE:
Ultimate has 140 base set w/ 40 legends & about 35 RCs

ECHELON has 50 verteran/retired base w/ 35 (non auto)
** alot of parrallels


Here are my pulls:

DUEL RELIC-AUTO TONY PARKER TEADR-TP 165/199
DUEL RELIC-AUTO BILL WALTON TEADR-BW 135/199
RC - QUAD JERSY-AUTO BRANDAN WRIGHT 53 043/199
RC-AUTO DAEQUAN COOK 66 465/499
BLACK CHRIS PAUL 2 133/999
BLACK ANDREA BARGNANI 7 146/999
BLACK DWIGHT HOWARD 12 297/999
BLACK YAO MING 11 113/999
BLACK PAUL PIERCE 28 552/999
BLACK PAUL PIERCE 28 491/999
BLACK CHRIS BOSH 39 153/999
BLACK SHAQ 32 504/999
BLACK LARRY BIRD 47 063/999
WHITE JAVARIS CRITENTON 70 131/499
WHITE KEVIN DURANT 74 415/999
WHITE JOAKIM NOAH 78 541/999

You can view my pulls in my card album... all cards have been uploaded.

edit: added echelon checklist link
ECHECLON CHECK LIST
 
not a bad break overall mate, i've seen some break of these on you tube and they were pretty sad. BTW i'd be interested in the javaris rc if u wanna trade it.
 
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