WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly every member of the Rockets coaching staff walked through the tunnel speechless, heads hung low.



Another overtime loss, this time at the hands of the sometimes dysfunctional Washington Wizards, put Houston’s losing streak at three and its road trip hopes in ruins.



“Man that’s trash,” P.J. Tucker muttered as he headed for the visitor’s locker room. Perhaps he was talking about the monster 54-point, 13-assist, eight-rebound night James Harden just had, seemingly all for naught. Perhaps it was about the team’s sub .500 record, sitting at 9-10, a far cry from the tidy 15-4 record Houston had after the same amount of games last season. Whatever it was, it definitely wasn’t good.



The warm spirit and laughter that had returned to the locker room during last week’s five-game winning streak was nowhere to be seen. It was eerily similar to the scene in Oklahoma, after a blowout loss to the...