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Rockets have inherent advantage to exploit this season

If they can find the right time to use it, anyway.

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With Fred VanVleet sidelined, the Houston Rockets will rely a lot on unproven second-year guard Reed Sheppard and veteran Aaron Holiday to run the point guard position. But with Kevin Durant, Amen Thompson, and Alperen Sengun all having ball-handling chops of their own, head coach Ime Udoka will likely deploy lineups where the Rockets will have (at least) one clear advantage: size.

A lineup with those three, plus any combination of Jabari Smith Jr, Tari Eason, and Dorian Finney-Smith, would be a jumbo package that could work extremely well in short stints.