Never Any Doubt as Bulls Roll : Game 5: Jordan, revived by golf, scores 46 points during 119-106 victory over the Trail Blazers. Chicago can win its second consecutive title Sunday.

Were the Trail Blazers upset that Phil Jackson was sneering at them?

Tough luck.

It isn’t bragging if it’s fact. The Chicago coach said he was upset that the Bulls hadn’t won this series in four games, and Friday night his team showed how superior it is, beating the Trail Blazers in Game 5, 119-106, behind Michael Jordan’s 46 points.

The Bulls now lead the NBA finals, 3-2, going back to Chicago for Game 6 and, if necessary, Game 7.

“We’re absolutely determined to try to get this over Sunday,” Jackson said. “In the unlikely event that doesn’t happen, we’re going to keep on going.”

This game was a mismatch from start to finish, physically and tactically.

Portland Coach Rick Adelman, remembering recent slow starts rather than Game 4’s fast finish, switched Terry Porter onto Scottie Pippen.

Pippen is 6 feet 7. Porter is 6-3. That’s a four-inch difference, and the Bulls didn’t mind testing it.

Pippen, struggling through the postseason, beat Porter for a left-handed layup.

Then he posted him up, saw Kevin Duckworth come over to double-team, but spun baseline on Porter’s side anyway, and dunked.

Then Pippen dunked on a fast-break after Clyde Drexler’s turnover, was fouled and made the free throw.

Then he posted Porter up again and made a 15-footer over him.

Pippen was four for four and the Bulls were ahead, 23-15. Adelman switched Jerome Kersey back to Pippen. Too late. Having regained his confidence, Pippen went on to score 24 points with 11 rebounds and nine assists.

Jackson said Porter on Pippen “definitely is a mismatch.”

Said Adelman: “I have no comment on his comments.

“We wanted to put some pressure on Pippen if we could. Terry wasn’t going to guard him all the time. The other guys didn’t pick up and apply pressure.

“We talked about that (starting slowly in Games 3 and 4). That’s all we talked about. Somehow we’ve got to find a way to get in the game early and sustain something.”

There was some Trail Blazer pressure. Buck Williams went after his old adversary, referee Jake O’Donnell, who assessed a quick technical foul. The Trail Blazers took a timeout and Adelman shouted at O’Donnell, too.

The Bulls went on to score 39 points during the first quarter as the Trail Blazers committed seven turnovers. Drexler picked up his third foul during the second period, and Adelman let him stay in the game.

That didn’t work out, either.

Adelman says Drexler plays well in foul trouble. But on Friday, Drexler picked up No. 4 before halftime, foolishly trying to steal a pass to Jordan on the wing, swatting his wrist right in front of a referee.

Jordan, rested and fit after playing 54 holes of golf this week, had 27 points by halftime.

“I heard something about my activity away from basketball,” Jordan said. “Yeah, I played golf. It’s like medicine for my mind. This is a mental strain. I play golf on my days off to get away from that mental strain.

“People complain about my golf. They should complain about my play. My play doesn’t deteriorate because of golf.

“If we were going to be back (in Chicago) by 9 o’clock in the morning, I’d play golf (today).”

Meanwhile, the search for Porter continued.

The Trail Blazer point guard, who was expected to have an easy time against John Paxson, didn’t make his first shot until 59 seconds remained in the third quarter.

Until then, Porter had taken only five shots.

This followed Game 4, in which he took only 10 shots, and Game 3, in which he took seven.

“I think it’s a combination of the job they’re doing--John Paxson and B.J. Armstrong, they come in and they don’t leave Terry,” Adelman said. “It’s like a piggyback thing. A lot of it is our inability to get him open. Terry’s not the type to kind of take it over himself.”

The Bulls led by 18 during the second quarter, by 20 during the third and by 18 with 5:54 to play in the fourth when the Trail Blazers made a run that never got them closer than nine points.

“Obviously,” Adelman said, “I thought we gave that game to them.”

He was doing his Phil Jackson imitation. Reporters broke up in laughter.

For the Trail Blazers, that was as good as it got Friday.

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Terry Porter, the point guard whose play in the playoffs led Portland to the finals, has been struggling in the series against Chicago. C9