May 10—The Thunder has used more than two dozen starting lineups this season, but none more unusual than the starting five Sunday night in Sacramento.

Theo Maledon (6-5) at point guard. Aleksej Pokusevski (7-0) and Darius Bazley (6-8) on the wing. Isaiah Roby (6-8) at power forward. Moses Brown (7-1) at center.

That’s a lot of length. Pokusevski was back in the starting lineup after missing four of the last five games with a left knee contusion. He replaced Luguentz Dort, who was out with right knee patellar tendinitis.

Darius Bazley led the Thunder with 18 points in its 126-98 loss to the Kings.

Here are four other takeaways:

The Warriors shot 50% from 3-point range against the Thunder on Saturday. The Kings kicked the Thunder while it was down, shooting 44% (16-of-36) from three Sunday.

Buddy Hield was 4-of-10 from deep for 14 points.

The Kings had eight players reach double-digit scoring.

The Thunder’s second unit also had a different feel.

Ty Jerome (left calf strain) was out. Kenrich Williams and Tony Bradley — two regulars in the rotation — did not play.

OKC started the second quarter with Svi Mykhailiuk, Charlie Brown Jr., Josh Hall, Gabriel Deck and Jaylen Hoard. Mykhailiuk was a first-round pick. The latter four went undrafted.

Hoard scored a career-high 16 points against the Kings. He shot 6-of-8 from the floor and added five rebounds.

Hoard, a second-year player out of Wake Forest, is on a two-way contract with the Thunder.

The Thunder (21-48) climbed into the all-important top-three in the lottery standings.

The top three (bottom three) teams all have a 14% chance at the No. 1 pick and a 52% chance at a top four pick.

There’s also a 48% chance that Houston’s pick falls to OKC at No. 5.

The Thunder has lost 21 of its last 22 games.