Russ at this point in his career is unplayable in the 4th qt. The Clippers game, and this game make it plainly obvious.
The gameplan is out on defending the Lakers when Russ is on in crunch time... either go zone, or put your center (Zubac, Nurkic) on him to roam and pack the paint away from AD, Bron. It's a win/win in that situation cause if you start to double or pack the paint on a drive, a kick out will be going to either Russ or one of the other horrible jumpshooters on this team
Darvin Ham talked all this tough talk about potential benching and the FIRST instance where you needed to get some momentum and a W from all the good things you've done as a team... he inserts Russ to basically fuk everything up.
I blame Ham for even bringing him in, and if Ham brings him again in crunch time then it's obvious that Ham is a puppet and the FO is making these decisions on Russ for whatever reason