data-mm-id=”_lz25zlh4d”>In the middle of his second season with the Brooklyn Nets, D'Angelo Russell tweeted, "Control what you can control 2019, 20, 21."“I started living by that,” Russell told The Big Lead. In the ninth game of that 2018 campaign, Russell was benched during the entire fourth quarter in a loss against the Houston Rockets. Sitting for the final period was not an uncommon occurrence for Russell that year. “I couldn’t control that,” Russell said. “I’m not going to let it break me or bring me down. You see players nowadays, younger players in the league go through that same adversity in their careers and they let it break them. I try to send that message of, 'Man, you gotta play the game, dog.'" Russell missed 34 games due to i…