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And while it would take a team of scientists to explain this all properly, any one of us can feel it when happy chapters of life seem to fly by, while darker ones feel like they stretch for an eternity – or when recalling the summers of youth when two months felt twice as long, compared to the seasons of adulthood where calendar pages flip over months that feel as thin as the paper they're printed on.

What began with a two-for-seven whimper had turned into a scorching nine-for-nine stretch for Maiava.

“As you can imagine, that was a bit of a stretch for me.”

Here, in their third road trip to the other side of the country, was the nadir of an already disastrous stretch for the Trojans, as Maryland capped a mad comeback to beat USC, 29-28, handing the Trojans their third straight loss and fourth in five weeks.

“The NBA was a far stretch for me. I never thought that in high school that I would play pro,” he said.