Rockets have been doing terribly this year.

I do not believe just because they lost Trevor Ariza they have lost all their power and suddenly a bad team. I think there must be something more to the story than just losing Ariza. They still have Chris Paul and James Harden which was the big cannons last year too and they managed to make it to western conference finals against Warriors and almost won.

Ariza wasn't the best player on that team, he probably wasn't in the top 3 in that team. He only had a defensive help which is always loved but that can't be it. Even Eric Gordon started to shoot a lot worse this year. I think there must be some team chemistry issues that needs to be addressed or there must be some new thing Pringles is trying, I don't know what the deal is but I hope they get back on that horse.

Well for me the talent's always been there and there have been flashes of the old drose even back when he was in ny and cleveland. He probably needed a breakout game like this to make a comeback and i really hope he gets to sustain this kind of play. Happy for drose and his fans.

His reaction is priceless!

I admire him for having a great play. We want more of D.Rose and I guess after his last game, he's now the most beloved player. Most of the sentiments on social media are very favorable to him and he's even compared to KD's getting the ring. I hope he's going to play consistently, we want more of this type of D Rose.

Wizards are one of the big disappointments of this early season. Last night, OKC on national television beat them pretty badly to go 1-7.

They have the worst opp ppg @ almost 124 pts, at times last night I felt like they did not want to be on the court, there was no effort at all to play defense, to play together. Not sure whether it's Scott Brooks or they have other locker room problems, but they're nothing less than a pure embarrassment at this moment. sigh...

It is really getting to the point where we will see the real standings. I mean so far there has been the early days of NBA and we haven't seen the teams playing with all their systems intact and fully built but right now all the good teams who started bad started to win lately and all the bad teams who won started to lose again.

Magic Johnson apparently berated Luke Walton, the first thought was it was because of the bad start and everyone said the team has Lebron but all others are not enough to make the team win many games however apparently the point was that Magic Johnson wants Luke Walton to build that warriors system (Luke Walton was assistant coach for Steve Kerr) into Lakers and have a "system" they play in, right now everything just happens and there is no system but if Lakers build a system and improve with new FA next season they can be really good.

Wizards are and have been quite an unpredictable team in the last few seasons, I always thought they needed something else to get them to the next level, i.e. ECF, perhaps a better bench or a good 3rd player like Beal and Wall... However, I don't think anyone expected them to be bad this season.

I'll give you a reason why they suck, it's called - Dwight Howard. Remember what happened in Orlando? Well, he got Stan fired. Then he went to the Lakers, they were pretty terrible, I don't remember well but I think Mike Brown was fired too. Moving on to Huston, Kevin McHale fired. Then he went to a pretty good Hawks team - just above .500 team, coach Budenholzer was gone after 1 more year. Hornets - Steve Clifford fired. Everywhere he goes something bad happens.

Wiz needs to cut/trade Dwight and get back to normal.  

I think Dwight is one of the victims on how the whole NBA game has change for the last 5 years. The game has evolved so much that true NBA Centers are not the focus of the game anymore. Its more of a run and gun type of game, with 3's is the most weapons that NBA teams are going now.

Plus he might has some attitude problem as well. Remember he and Kobe doesn't go along with the Lakers so he was traded. And the same thing happen in Houston with James Harden. If he doesn't evolved then he might be another name in NBA and may be forgotten.

Maybe they need to do what the Cavaliers has done, changing the coach or changing the players but I don't think its the coach's problem because last season, they are a good team. I think the problem is with the players, the acquiring of Howard and trading of Porter maybe.

I'm not a Wizard fan but I know they are good but I agree that this is a big disappointment for them.

Dwight is definitely not victim of the offenses changing into more threes or centers are not being important. Look at javale mcgee, he used to be the mocker of NBA but he worked hard and now one of the most talented men in a lebron led lakers, he just recorded 6  blocks in one game. Look at embiid, dude is avaraging 30 points and 13 rebounds with couple blocks, that is amazing for him but also shows how big men are still important.

Look at blake griffin, he used to be a high vertical jumper and that was about it, now he is a scoring threat everywhere. It doesn't matter how the game is played at all, as long as you keep improving yourself than you will keep the defenders on their foot, if you don't improve yourself than people will start to defend you better because they know how you play. Dwight did not improve himself, he was good at his prime but than didn't put anything on top of that, even Lebron improves himself so he has no excuse.

If for whatever reason, Washington fails to get the win over an equally bad Knicks team tonight, I could see Brooks getting fired the next day.

Personally, I don't expect this to happen, at least not today, probably Wizards will go away with a double-digit win. (Have in mind though, Wiz are not to be trusted)