The Houston Rockets took a big gamble with their opening game starting lineup. Ime Udoka ran out a starting unit featuring four 6-foot-11 players and a 6-foot-7 point guard. Steven Adams and Alperen Sengun have both spent most of their careers at the five, and even Jabari Smith Jr . has typically been looked at as a power forward/center. The Seattle Supersonics briefly experimented with using Kevin Durant as a shooting guard, but that was nearly a decade ago. And even though Amen Thompson was billed as a jumbo point guard coming out of the draft, he found most of his rookie year success playing the shooting guard and small forward positions.

The Rockets' lineup is certainly unique, and a lot of fans were intrigued by it. It resulted in the team nearly toppling the defending

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