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 s

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