Maybe there’s something to this?
D’Angelo Russell played 12 games last season before suffering a knee injury and going in for arthroscopic surgery, forcing a two-month exit. On his return, DLo was slowly integrated back into the rotation, not returning to the starting line-up until after the All-Star break.
He only played 48 games total.
Caris LeVert logged 71 appearances last season, starting only 10. In 2017-18, the two potential-packed prospects played in only 40 games together, eight of them starts. That’s just not a lot of time in the NBA.
Simply put, we just haven’t seen them together a lot.