Thanks to an underperforming starting five, the Sacramento Kings were handed another blowout loss, this time by the Houston Rockets. Their saving grace was a powerful bench led by Malik Monk, who used the opportunity to prove he remains a Sixth Man of the Year candidate.
It was only a couple of games ago that the Kings' bench utterly dropped the ball against the Utah Jazz, costing Sacramento a win. It's safe to say that they took that loss to heart because that same batch returned the next two games with a chip on their respective shoulders.