Lumberjack Vincent Boumann brings size and power to Ozone in SlamBall

Vincent Boumann is the biggest body in the current SlamBall pool, and Ozone feels it every time he steps in. Listed at 6-foot-9 and 285 pounds, the McMinnville, Oregon native known as Lumberjack gives Trevor Anderson’s team a different kind of possession: one that can start with a lob, end with contact, and turn the lane into a problem before the defense settles.

That is the payoff for Ozone. Boumann is not just a wide target at the rim, he is a pressure point. When he is on the floor, the other team has to decide whether to crowd the springbed action and risk a finish over the top, or stay home and let him carve out deep position. In a sport built on a 96-foot-by-64-foot court with springbeds at each end, that size changes shot selection fast. Boumann can punish smaller lineups on the glass, give Ozone a second-chance edge, and make defenders think twice about rotating late into the dunk lane.

Western Oregon’s numbers back up the case that he can do more than absorb contact. In his 2017-18 senior season, Boumann averaged 10.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game while shooting 63.0 percent from the field. Western Oregon said that mark was the No. 2 single-season field-goal percentage in program history and the best career field-goal percentage the school has ever recorded. He also spent time at Point Loma and Clackamas Community College before building a professional résumé that stretched through Armenia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Laos, Mexico, Uruguay and the United States.

That background matters in SlamBall, where physicality and timing are just as important as pure vertical pop. Boumann played four years of professional basketball and one year of professional rugby with the Colorado XOs, a mix that fits a league invented by Mason Gordon in 1999 and first played in Los Angeles. The sport’s 2023 relaunch on ESPN brought back eight teams, a month-long season and playoffs, and Ozone needed a presence who could survive the collisions that come with it. Boumann fits that job description.

He joins a roster that includes Keith McGee, Bryan Bell-Anderson, Keenan Love, LaQuavius Cotton, Marcus Gray and Donavin Byrd, with Anderson, a pioneering early SlamBall star, and assistant Jenero Hemphill, a former player, running the bench. That staff knows exactly what Boumann changes. On Ozone possessions, the floor tilts toward size, and that tilt starts before the ball is even in play.