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D’Angelo Russell knows he has to step it up next year

Despite D’Angelo Russell’s first season in Brooklyn being arguably the best of his short career, the Nets point guard admits it could have gone better — and has to get better.

“It could be better,” said Russell, who turned 22 in February. “Yeah, it could be better. I think it’s just learning. I’m feeling it out. Everything I’m doing is new, playing with new coaches, new teammates. Everything is new. So I think it’s a feeling-it-out type deal with me, so it could always be better.”

Hearing that from a player the Lakers deemed immature and incapable of taking coaching is likely music to the Nets’ ears.