Panini Threads jersey card...kinda cool actually

I was on youtube watching Chris from the Hobby Box busting cards today.  I typically skip over all the football and baseball unless it's real high-end stuff.  So once I see a basketball break, I shoot right over.  He was doing some Panini Threads, and even though I know I've seen a box break or two, I must not have been paying much attention, because Threads has one of the coolest inserts I've seen in a while.  Here's a sample:

They're jesey shaped cards of the major stars of the league in home and away fashions.  Now, I know that detractors will say that they are plain, will have corner issues and are "gimmicky".  But I think that these are brilliant because they are so un-bedazzled.  There is no chrome, holographics or refraction whatsoever.  There isn't even a picture of the player.

But these inserts are so simple and appeal to my sense of looking for something different from a pack of cards.  I think that Panini / Donruss has proven (time and time again) that they can do bright, metallic cards with a whole lot of issues of poor photo positioning.

Kudos to the member of the design team that went against the Panini grain and talked them into something a bit more understated.

After I build my set of Panini flagship, I'll definetely be checking out threads to see if I can't put that insert set together.  How good would an on card auto be on these bad boys?  Tons of potential coming out of Panini if they can grow this NBA contract.