YES, that really just happened.

Joe Ingles’ incredible season continued today (AEST) as he led the Utah Jazz to a stunning upset result over the Houston Rockets in Game 2 of their Western Conference semi-finals.

Ingles topscored for the Jazz with 27 points, including seven threes — both career-highs — on the biggest stage; helping Utah secure a crucial 116-108 road win to tie the series at 1-1.

The Jazz forward was perfect from the field in the second half — going 5-for-5 — while Rockets players went 1-for-9 when guarded by the Aussie.

Thursday September 24th

Going into this one, the Jazz were down 1-0 and expected to struggle; a matchup problem against Mike D’Antoni’s team that most analysts couldn’t envision the Jazz overcoming.

Instead, Utah found their rhythm on offence, and crucially stopped Houston finding theirs.

Running out to a 19-point lead midway through the second quarter; the Jazz looked close to unstoppable, before a 19-7 Houston run cut the lead to just seven points at the half.

The Rockets came out firing in the third — taking the lead — but Utah and Ingles had the hot hand; and a 30-23 fourth quarter secured a wildly improbable result.

“We had some time to think about, and talk about what we do,” Ingles said post-game.

“Obviously from our Game 6 (vs. Thunder) to Game 1, was a 36-hour turnaround.

“We came out a step behind in Game 1 — we were able to watch it and learn from it and play a bit more how we wanted to play for this game.

“I try to be aggressive every game, but I wanted to get going.

“I thought our team could use that, so I tried to be aggressive. Got lucky on some shots falling early and we were able to hold out for the rest of the game.”

Utah had contributions from across the board; Rudy Gobert had 15 points and 14 rebounds, Donovan Mitchell dropped 17 points and 11 assists, and Alec Burks contributed 17 points off the bench.

Fellow Australian Danté Exum was massive for the Jazz — a +10 in his 17 minutes — slowing down both James Harden and Chris Paul; a huge dunk with less than a minute remaining capping off a big performance from the 22-year-old.

James Harden had 32 points (9-22 FG) and 11 assists, Chris Paul added 23 points and Clint Capela had 21 points to go along with 11 rebounds.

More significantly, the Rockets were poor from three-point range — going just 10-for-37 — and looked out of sync for much of the night; with their bench putting up just 22 points.

But Joe Ingles was the story of the day. And Twitter was ready for it.

Joe Ingles for prime minister 🗣🗣 — Dejan Vasiljevic (@DejanMv) May 3, 2018

it's time we start talking about how actually lebron is just a lesser joe ingles — Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) May 3, 2018

literally nobody better than joe ingles https://t.co/48g0rVgVMO — Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) May 3, 2018

How can you not like Joe Ingles? — Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 3, 2018

Joe Ingles 7-9 from three tonight pic.twitter.com/v3bwMqshUs — Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) May 3, 2018

Just call Joe Ingles “Clarified Butter”



He silky smooth. — SonicsRising (@sonicsrising) May 3, 2018

James Harden watching Joe Ingles hit another three #TakeNote pic.twitter.com/A3EjPNTT3n — Joe Martin (@joeDmarti) May 3, 2018

JOE INGLES IS SO HOT HE'S BLEACHING THE BARRIER REEF. — “Playoff SLC D” (@slcdunk) May 3, 2018