Russell Westbrook has a usage rate of 42.4 through six games this season, up from 31.3 last season as he's taking on a bigger role without Kevin Durant.

“I don't look at it as being necessarily a bad thing, because (of) his ability to impact the game in a lot of ways,” said Billy Donovan.

But the Oklahoma City Thunder are trying to get to the point that “it's not just, ‘OK, Russell's got the ball and everything's being generated through him,'” Donovan said. 

“He's an aggressive, attacking, fiery, really, really competitive point guard, and I love everything about that, about him,” Donovan said. “So it's not about changing him. It's just about him learning and figuring and studying and seeing different ways that he can impact his teammates, and I think he's trying to do that.”