Coaching switches sometimes provide a spark. So it seems with Sacto, which had reeled off seven wins in a row for interim Doug Christie before finally losing on Tuesday at Milwaukee. Keying the uprising has been an offense that has scored at a 121 pg clip across the last eight, with vet wing DeMar DeRozan (26 ppg last four) having tapped an especially rich vein of form. It's no surprise the Kings are over 5-1 across their last six. Meanwhile, the Rockets are ascending, too, having won five straight after last night's romp in Denver, while over in four of those. Note the last meeting at Golden 1 Center landed over back on December 3 (120-111 Sacto win). Play Rockets-Kings Over

Malik Monk is set to return tonight for the Kings, who aren't as good as the Rockets but there's little tougher in the NBA than playing the second of a back-to-back when the front end was in the thin air of Denver. Houston is in that position tonight. We have seen Fred VanVleet get one leg of a B2B off previously so maybe we get lucky here in that regard.