Ozone leans on balanced attack as SlamBall relaunch season opens
McGee scored 169 points, but Ozone’s real edge was balance: four guards topped 70 points and Boumann’s size gave the backcourt room to attack.
Keith McGee finished Ozone’s 2023 season with 169 points, and he was not carrying the load alone. Bryan Bell-Anderson added 107, LaQuavius Cotton scored 81 and Marcus Gray finished with 71, giving Ozone a spread of scoring that could make the defense chase different options from possession to possession.
That mattered in SlamBall because the league’s live substitutions and nonstop pace reward teams that can keep pressure on without waiting for one star to cool off or get trapped. McGee, whom Morgan State described as Ozone’s primary ball handler, was the engine. But the roster around him was built to keep the ball moving, with Donavin Byrd another guard option and Keenan Love plus Vincent Boumann providing the kind of stop-and-start size that can hold the lane when contact starts piling up.
Boumann’s frame, 6-foot-9 and 285 pounds, gave Ozone something that does not always show up in a box score: a body that can absorb traffic in a sport where possessions can turn into collisions fast. Love and Boumann also gave the team a defensive floor. In one later Ozone win, the pair combined for nine stops while McGee poured in 34 points against the Wrath, his second 30-point game of the season. That is the clearest evidence that Ozone’s balance could become a real edge when the guards got downhill and the stoppers cleaned up behind them.
The larger season picture was less polished. Ozone finished 2-8, scored 486 points and allowed 585, a minus-99 differential that showed how often the good stretches were interrupted by long dry spells or defensive leaks. The team’s 65 stops and 56 assists suggest enough playmaking and resistance to stay competitive, but not enough consistency to turn those bursts into wins.
That tension defined Ozone as SlamBall relaunched on July 21, 2023 at Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas with eight teams and a month-long season. The roster had the pieces for wave-after-wave pressure, and McGee’s background fit the role: Arcadia High School’s most dunks in school history, a 40-point prep game, NJCAA Tournament MVP honors and a Morgan State high of 27 points on 12-of-13 shooting. The question was never whether Ozone had guards who could score. It was whether their balance could hold up long enough to swing games against deeper, more complete teams.
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