Blake Griffin turned the clock back to his glorious posterizing days last night, dunking all over a hapless Rudy Gobert in Tuesday's 102-84 revenge win over the Utah Jazz.
The L.A. Clippers were eliminated in a Game 7 of the first round, and nothing was sweeter than making The Stifle Tower his first victim of the NBA season.
Griffin caught a mismatch near the free-throw line against point guard Ricky Rubio, used his body to shield the ball away from him and crammed it down the skull of a inopportune Gobert, who couldn't even get up to contest the shot.
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Griffin took his time descending from the rim after punching it home emphatically over the 7-foot-1 Frenchman — drawing comparisons to the late Charlie Murphy's skit on Prince during the early 2000's Chappelle's Show.
“Just trying to attack, whenever we see screens and the get switches, we try to get advantage of mismatches,” said Griffin, as his frontcourt mate DeAndre Jordan teased him on his way out of the podium with “Alright, Prince.”
“We want to take advantage of mismatches, that's all.”
Griffin finished with a game-high 22 points along with nine rebounds and six assists in a commanding 18-point win over the Jazz.
The 28-year-old forward has got a solid six inches on the 6-foot-4 Rubio and over 60 pounds of mass to exploit his matchup. Gobert happened to be at the worst end of that drive, making this the French Dip that everyone at Staples Center was waiting to see.
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