Amen Thompson's all-around Game 5 powers Rockets by Warriors

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HOUSTON -- With his team down 3-1 in its first-round playoff matchup against the Warriors, Amen Thompson leaned against the wall and stared out into the gym at Houston's Memorial Hermann training facility, smiling as smooth R&B music hummed in the background.

"[I feel] amazing," he said at the Rockets' morning shootaround Wednesday. "I feel great."

Thompson had just watched the Detroit Pistons stave off elimination against the New York Knicks a night earlier as his twin brother, Ausar, scored 22 points to go with 7 rebounds and 2 blocks. So Amen Thompson knew his time was coming, too, based off patterns from that Eastern Conference series that appear to mirror what's…