The Bulls lost a crushing game last night when their last second winning jumper was overturned after ten minutes of replay review. That has to hurt, but there were a couple of good Chicago notes to come out off the game. The first was that Derrick Rose continues to show how versatile and effective he can be. Just check out the line – 22 points, 5 assists, 2 blocks, a steal, a rebound, and no turnovers. The guy does a little bit of everything. He’s one heck of a player. Joakim Noah also had his second straight incredibly good game. He followed up a 16 rebound performance with 21 boards last night. This isn’t the first time Noah has strung together good games – he was brilliant in the playoffs last year. What he needs to do now is to find a way to keep his confidence high and his play strong like this over a more extended period. He has the capability to be an elite player if his normal output more closely approximated his best output.

I generally like Gilbert Arenas – he’s an idiot, but he’s fun to watch. What a ridiculous performance he had last night, though. He led the Wizards with 21 points, but he also set a franchise record, and not one to be proud of – he turned the ball over 12 times. Seven of those turnovers came in one half of the third quarter. It’s not a wonderthat they lost with someone like that playing – it’s like the Heat were playing 6-on-4 and Arenas was their point guard dishing up assists.

It has got to be frustrating to be a fan of Oklahoma City these days. There is so much potential there, but they just can’t seem to sustain the play. They had a very impressive 28 point win over Orlando on Sunday night, but then they followed it up by losing to Sacramento last night. Kevin Durant did his part last night in the loss, posting a season high 37 points. It’s going to be interesting over the longer term to see if this team gets things turned around there or if it is never going to happen.

Sacramento achieved a shocking accomplishment when they beat Oklahoma City last night – it was the first time in almost three years that they have been .500. It’s hard to believe that the Kings used to always be a tough team to beat – a perennial contender. They are a particularly strange case because they have a reasonably good set of owners who care about the team and don’t do really stupid things. There are other teams that deserve to be lousy more than the Kings do.