Rivers, who knows Paul's game as well as anyone with the Houston Rockets after playing with him for three and a half seasons with the LA Clippers, didn't see Houston much early in the season but acknowledged that "Everybody's been saying [Paul was] just a little flat or whatever."
"[But] since I've been here, he's been pretty damn good," says Rivers, a bargain signing for the Rockets in the buyout market right after Paul suffered a hamstring strain in December that caused him to miss 17 games.
"We play through James [Harden] and Chris.