The Houston Rockets can’t play all seven members of their youth corps at once, so one of the most pressing issues for head coach Ime Udoka is determining how to sort out the minutes distribution between Alperen Sengün, Jalen Green, Tari Eason, Jabari Smith Jr., Cam Whitmore, Amen Thompson and Reed Sheppard.

Oh, and he’ll have to do that while making sure veterans Steven Adams, Fred VanVleet and Dillon Brooks get the playing time their more established track records say they deserve.

Some of this will sort itself out naturally as the season progresses. Maybe Thompson and Smith, say, will develop chemistry so obvious that they can’t be split up. Perhaps Sheppard will endure some rookie struggles that trim his role. Green might show up looking like the guy who blew the doors off in March, leaving few questions about the guard hierarchy.

But if everyone looks good, and if it continues to seem like there aren’t enough minutes to go around, it’ll be interesting to see how Houston handles it. Someone (or several someones) could get marginalized.

This is one of the best problems a team can have, of course, but having too much young talent is an issue nonetheless.