I was a bit intimidated when the large pallets showed up at the house, but after putting in the footing, it probably only took myself and my two of my kids 2 hrs to get the hoop completely up. I bought this hoop because my kids had broken our previous hoop multiple times and I got tired of fixing it. As sturdy as this hoop is, I'm not worried about them dunking and breaking it anymore. One minor issue we had is that the protective padding had a small rip in it from shipping. I emailed a pictures to the company and they sent out a new one right away.