Tonight was finally something that we have been waiting to see for a long time, Chris Pauls signature playoff game in a big time pressure win! We all know the story of Paul's tenure in LA with the Clippers, blowing series leads year after year and never making to to the Western Conference Finals, tonight he got the monkey off his back coming up huge in Game 5.
Paul dropped a career playoff high 41 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds and really took over in the 4th quarter when it looked like the Jazz might steal game 5 after going up by 6 points, after that CP3 hit the next 13 points for the Rockets in putting on a half court basketball masterclass. The reason Utah were able to get back in to it was a breath taking 22 point 3rd quarter from there rookie star Donovan Mitchell , even though they were eliminated the future is very bright for this young Jazz team.
The Rockets now lie in wait for a likely Conference Finals match up with the Golden State Warriors. The Rockets have home court advantage and will be confident they can win this series, from what i saw against the Jazz they were in cruise control though and will need to really pick up the intensity against the reigning NBA Champions, im predicting a 6 or 7 game series for the ages!
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