I was about to pull the trigger on a lesser hoop from DSG, until I played on one of my neighbors, thing shaked like crazy and took a WHILE for it to calm down after each shot. I then found out another neighbor's son dunked on his lesser hoop (not a DSG) and the backboard broke off!!! Did some more research and found out about Megaslam. I ordered the MegaSlam over the holiday weekend and it arrived at my house exactly seven days later. First impression: This thing is MASSIVE!!! I had the main pole standing up in my garage and when my neighbor came over he thought it was a structural support pole for my garage LOL!!! A couple of hours later my other neighbor came over and thought the same exact thing. It took them a minute to realize what it was. I installed this myself. I dug the hole to spec, and ended up using 19.5 bags of concrete. I rented a mixer from a local hardware store for next to nothing and I highly recommend you do the same thing if you plan on your own installation. I was able to get a majorortiy of the hoop assembled, but needed two neighbors to install the backboard. I believe the instructions say 4-5 are needed but I will tell you three "somewhat" strong men can take care of the backboard installation. BTW, the instructions where well written and I also watched their you tube videos. I love the hoop. Aesthetically it looks awesome, and has a much more cooler and menacing presence than the other hoops in my neighborhood. It is night and day more stable than the cheaper hoops. It is easily adjustable, my four year old does it no problem. I love that it can go to five feet for the little ones. The older kids like to dunk on it and I have absolutely no fear that this thing will ever break like my neighbors did. I HIGHLY recommend this product. I understand its more expensive than your local sporting goods hoop, but if you plan on owning this for a while, and have teenage or young adult boys playing, then stretch you budget and buy the MegaSlam, you'll will thank yourself for doing so.

We have had our Megaslam 60 for almost three years and we couldn’t be happier with it. We live in Michigan where the winters are harsh and there are no signs of rust anywhere. Even the padding still looks like new. We had a cheaper system before that really messed up my sons’ game. When they got to school they struggled to hit anything off the board. The Megaslam gives them the same firm bounce off the backboard that they have at school. It’s made a huge difference in their game! We did a lot of research before we bought and the Megaslam lived up to everything we hoped for.

This thing is great! I debated on many other products but I’m happy I went with Megaslam. The hot dipped galvanized and powder coated steel should stand up to our Pennsylvania weather. This hoop is for kids now due to the 5’ height, but I wanted something that could grow with our family. Large adults have dunked and hung on it and there is very little wobble. It is very stable. Not sure if every hoop designed like this is the same, but it takes a lot of cranks to adjust from 5 to 10 feet. The old style broomstick adjustment was much faster.