Season over

Well it came down to the final weekend. We were two games back with two to play, traveling to Okinawa for a match-up with the best team in the league. Unfortunately we couldn't get it done, losing on Saturday by 5. It was a close game, a few shots didn't go in and we ended up on the wrong side of a 78-73 score.

Having had our season unceremoniously ended the day before, we came back on Sunday for our last game of the season. We were spent, having invested so much in the game we lost the day before. I guess the best thing you can say about Sunday's game is that nobody got hurt. We had a few scares but nothing serious. Oh, and Ray managed to pick up his only technical of the season with less than 2 minutes to play in the final game of the season. Sucks for him but funny timing for the rest of us.

Turns out the team ahead of us, Fukuoka, won on Sunday. So even if we had overcome the odds and defeated Okinawa twice we still wouldn't be in the playoffs. That's not much consolation, however.

Well now the season is done, I'm not quite sure what is going to happen. My parents are still here for a few days. We still are on the payroll cause we have a booster end-of-the-season party (name changed from the previous name: Playoff Send-Off Party) on Wednesday. After that we are finished with our obligations.

I'm not sure when I will be returning Stateside. I had planned on staying in Japan and getting knee surgery, but after saying I could stay for free in May my team is now asking me for rent money. I'm talking to them, we'll see what happens. My surgery is set for May 16, if I can get it moved up I will certainly stay and have it done. Insurance pays 70% here, and considering I don't have insurance in the States, that's not such a bad deal. If I can't move the surgery up and the team is still making me pay rent, I'm not sure what I will do.

At present I am unable to say with any certainty what continent I will be on 10 days from now. I suppose I can say with 100% certainty that I won't be on Antarctica. So there is that. But yeah, who knows where I will be. So now it's back to the weightroom to get ready for next season.