Whether he needed a few minutes either to knock off the rust of missing 17 games because of a strained hamstring or to mesh with a teammate signed during his absence, Chris Paul regained his rhythm and struck a chord with Kenneth Faried by the second quarter of the Rockets' 103-98 comeback win over the Magic on Sunday night at Toyota Center.
Paul scored 12 points, shooting 4-for-8, in 25 minutes.
Paul looked steady from the start, dodging Aaron Gordon and zipping around Nikola Vucevic, but he was not very productive in his first rotation, which lasted five minutes.