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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Houston Rockets overwhelmed the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night with their speed in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series, so now it’s time to see if the Lakers will attempt to speed up and perhaps go to a small-ball lineup themselves. Lakers big man JaVale McGee got the usual start at center, but only played 12 minutes in the Rockets’ dominant 112-97 victory. And backup center Dwight Howard registered only 11 minutes, meaning a true center accounted for playing less than half the game. And that still might be too many center minutes in this series with the Rockets trotting out 6-foot-5 P.J. Tucker as their five man. Lakers star Anthony Davis is not fond of playing center, but he wouldn’t be going up against a traditional big in this matchup. Davis is willing to slide up from power forward in this series, league sources told Yahoo Sports. “We’ll look at the tape and we’ll see what approach we’re going to have for Game 2 and we’ll go from there,...