It's funny how 72 hours can change how your season ends....

[OrStBballRef]

So my season was going to end tomorrow night, but last Friday I had a GV for two teams fighting for playoff position and the #2 spot in their league. Partner and I had worked together many times and we're on the same page throughout the game, which was just an easy, easy game. Visiting team wins by 14 or so. No complaints from any benches or players.

In the stands was an evaluator from our association, who also observes for several D1 conferences as well as being a former NBA official.

Game ends and we're in the locker room. He comes down and basically gives us a pretty good review. Lots of positive comments and a lot of stuff to work on as well. Since both my partner are 'younger' guys in our association we ask that he let our assigner know of his observations as it carries a fair amount of weight.

So I get the eval back late in the weekend and he has a lot of comments for us to work on, but also stated that as a crew we were more than capable of working a play off game in all but our highest classification. I was pretty surprised that it was that good of a review, but figured it was too late in the season to count as playoffs were starting up this week....

Fast forward to today and I got the notice that I have a playoff game this Saturday at one of the far corners of our association. Working with a guy who is heading off to one of our tournaments as well. Gym is about an hour + from my house and usually has a reputation of being filled to the brink. Every game I've had there the last 2-3 years seems like it has gone down to the last minute. Playoff teams are the #4/#5 seeds on that side of the bracket.

This will be my first 'true' playoff game (I worked a season ending conference tournament final last year, but it wasn't a lose, go home type of deal) so I'm stoked especially considering my game tomorrow is a GV between two teams who are at the bottom of their league and not going anywhere post-season wise.

Heck of a way to end a season....