D’Angelo Russell watched the last three seasons as Ricky Rubio helped in the development of Donovan Mitchell in Utah and Devin Booker in Phoenix.
Even though he’s a point guard who likes to have the ball in his hands, Russell envisions he and Rubio working together without a hitch the way Rubio did with Mitchell and Booker.
“When you’re a young scorer in the game, you tend to make things harder for yourself at the end of games,” Russell said. “Once teams start making adjustments and start trapping or start denying and making it harder for you, you need a player like that to relieve you.