Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we wrap up with JJ Redick.

In the aggregate, JJ Redick’s rookie season as a head coach at any meaningful level — with all due respect to the youth leagues in Brooklyn — was a success. He navigated one of the wilder seasons in recent Lakers history at least, all things considered, and led them to a 50-win season and home court advantage.

But being a head coach at the professional level is a “what have you done for me lately” vocation and the playoffs are where everything is revealed about a team. For the Lakers, that meant Redick looked most like a first-time head coach in the

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