EL SEGUNDO — With the Lakers set for a matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night, Coach JJ Redick went down a game film rabbit hole on the team that eliminated them in five games in a first-round playoff series last spring.

A rabbit hole so deep that Redick found himself watching film from his own career involving a player he now coaches and a former teammate who now plays for the Golden State Warriors, whom the Lakers lost to in their season opener on Tuesday night.

“I actually, at one point, was watching inverted pick-and-rolls when I was in Philly and Marcus [Smart] was top locking me,” Redick said, “and Al Horford shoved him and I sent him the clip.”

But Redick, who in hindsight said he would have treated the week the Lakers had in between securing the No. 3 seed in

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