After watching the Toronto Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers take care of business, I certainly hoped that the Rockets could do the same thing in their Game 5. But the Utah Jazz are not the Nets or Magic, and I think this series (along with OKC’s utter failure) truly showed that they are the third best team in the Western Conference.
But they went up against the second (and hopefully first) best team. Utah managed to bring the game closer to their own terms than the Rockets, and turned much of this game into a defensive rockfight than a scoring fest.