WASHINGTON – Here is Skylar Mays, in an unfamiliar locker and overwhelmed by unfamiliar emotions, contemplating the permanent and the temporary.
After a loss like Friday’s, an 80-63 defeat to Michigan State to end LSU’s season in the Sweet 16, it’s easy to confuse the two. They easily entangle, like loose headphones in a pocket. It takes monumental perspective to tell one from the other, particularly just moments after a dream comes crashing down.
But if anyone has that perspective, it is Mays, the junior guard who has gone through hell and back this season.