{"id":141,"date":"2003-08-11T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/08\/slamball_is_the_sht\/"},"modified":"2003-08-11T11:09:53","modified_gmt":"2003-08-11T15:09:53","slug":"slamball_is_the_sht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/11\/slamball_is_the_sht\/","title":{"rendered":"SlamBall is the Sh*t!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"SlamBall<\/a><\/div>\n

I just saw SlamBall<\/a> for the first time and I’m hooked. I can’t believe I slept on the entire first season though. I remember seeing promos for it and thinking ‘eh, so what if these guys can dunk using trampolines…’. Silly me. Here’s a description of the game:<\/p>\n

\nTake basketball. Then mix it with football, hockey, lacrosse, gymnastics and — oh yeah — a few trampolines. What would you get? If you said, “a lot of fractures,” you’d be right. But the answer we’re looking for is SlamBall — the all-action human video game where two teams defy gravity and hospitalization in their pursuit of victory. It’s fast. It’s furious. And it’s not very femur-friendly.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you like basketball and either football or hockey you’ll probably love SlamBall. It’s basically full-contact basketball that centers around dunking. (Dunks are worth 3 points while jumpers are worth 2.) They even got rid of the 3-point line this season to encourage more action at the rim. And there is indeed some serious action at the rim. In the game I saw one team’s stopper (basically a goalie), who was 6′ 6″, 235 lbs, was crushing<\/i><\/b> everything that came his way. You know how b-ballers like to say ‘get that ish outta here’ after blocking a shot? Well in SlamBall the words are not necessary… the physical punishment says it all.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen SlamBall, it comes on SpikeTV 3 times per week (Unfortunately they show the same game all 3 times). There’s also lots of good info at the SlamBall fansite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just saw SlamBall for the first time and I’m hooked. I can’t believe I slept on the entire first season though. I remember seeing promos for it and thinking ‘eh, so what if these guys can dunk using trampolines…’. Silly me. Here’s a description of the game: Take basketball. Then mix it with football,… Continue reading SlamBall is the Sh*t!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":169,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/sportsblog_is_up_running\/","url_meta":{"origin":141,"position":0},"title":"SportsBlog is Up & Running","date":"August 26, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Sports fans may want to check out the new group blog called SportsBlog. 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