The Los Angeles Lakers will be well-rested when they take on the Phoenix Suns at PHX Arena on Sunday, coming off a three-day break.

The Lakers will aim for their eighth straight win to keep pace with the San Antonio Spurs for the best record in the Western Conference. As of this writing, Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves, Quentin Grimes, and Collin Sexton are all listed as game-time decisions.

While the Purple and Gold have looked great, coach JJ Redick used the extended break to “audit” the Lakers, according to ESPN's Dave McMenamin.

“I had about 20 things. Greg (St. Jean), Ty (Abbott), and Nate (McMillan) had about 20 things on the defensive end. Our analytics guys put together a 21-page presentation that we went over this morning. We filtered through our offensive stuff based on our identities of who we want to be offensively,” said Redick in the video posted by McMenamin.

“Then we went through our defense, and our three identities: Organized, physical, and relentless. We went through stats based on those things. It's a very clean thing. We've done that for the last two and a half seasons. It's just (making sure) everything we presented to the team lines up with who we're trying to be.”

JJ Redick said he used the three-day break in the schedule to “audit” the Lakers’ season thus far. He presented a 21-page analytics breakdown to the team, backing up their tenants: “Offensively: organized, unselfish, advantage based – then we went through the stats on that” pic.twitter.com/TBOMm5U77J

— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) November 13, 2026

Redick has often stated that he is a basketball nerd. Dissecting the Lakers' entire strategy and pinpointing areas of improvement must be an enjoyable activity for him.

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Redick, who is in his third season in Los Angeles, has a lot to be happy about. The Lakers lead the league in points (122.2), field goal percentage (50.3%), and steals (11.0). They are second in free throws made (26.3), third in three-point percentage (38.3%), and fourth in blocks (6.2).

They could work on their defense, as they are 18th in points allowed (114.2) and 15th in field goal percentage allowed (45.4%).

The Lakers have not lost since October 30.