The Los Angeles Lakers want D'Angelo Russell to either play aggressively or to rest his sore left knee.

Russell had only eight points in the Lakers' loss on Sunday to the Chicago Bulls as he relied mostly on jumpers.

“We want him to push and be aggressive,” Luke Walton said. “You can’t play at this level by favoring it. If that’s the case where it hurts, then we need to shut him down until he’s healthy. The league is too good only to go halfway and show some of the stuff that you can do because you’re concerned that something might hurt.”

Russell told Walton his left knee “feels about the same” after Sunday’s game.

“I thought he was favoring it a little bit,” Walton said. “I don’t know if he was hurt or it was in his head. But it felt like he was floating around the perimeter more than normal.”