EL SEGUNDO >> Lakers coach JJ Redick was being sarcastic when he quipped after Sunday night’s preseason loss to the Phoenix Suns that he wanted his team to attempt 50 3-point shots after they took 40 against the Suns.

“If you look at it, for us and our group to take 40 3s in a game, that’s promising,” Redick said on Sunday. “It’s promising. We can get it up to 50, hopefully, but 40 is good.”

But the message behind the sarcasm is clear — Redick wants the Lakers to be a more high-volume 3-point shooting team than they’ve recently been.

“(Forty 3-pointers) is a lot,” Redick said after the team’s practice on Tuesday. “But if you’re generating good ones, that’s a great number. I would like us to average five or six more 3s a game. But you have to be conscientious about how we’re generating those 3s.”

Despite finishing eighth in the NBA in 3-point percentage last season (37.7%), the Lakers averaged 31.4 attempts from behind the arc in 2023-24 — the third-lowest volume among the league’s 30 teams.

Attempting 36-37 3s per game would have put them between Nos. 8-13 in 3-point volume last season.

In the LeBron James-Anthony Davis era, the Lakers haven’t finished a season higher than 17th in 3-point volume — which came during a 2021-22 season in which James played 56 of 82 games and Davis played just 40.

The Lakers have averaged 36 shots from behind the arc in their first two preseason games, but most teams tend to take more in the preseason than they do in the regular season.

The Lakers averaged 36 3-point shots last preseason before that volume dipped once the games mattered.

“We’ve done a pretty good job of getting good looks,” Redick said. “There were a couple (of) forced ones in transition off of the dribble in the first half (against the Suns). Then there were a couple off (of) offensive rebounds in the second half that I thought maybe we could’ve kept the ball movement moving and gotten a better shot. I like the mindset overall to shoot when set and shoot good 3s.”

City Edition jerseys

The Lakers on Tuesday unveiled their City Edition uniforms for the 2024-25 season along with their first City Edition court.

The court and uniform will debut when the Lakers host the Orlando Magic on Nov. 21 at Crypto.com Arena.

This season’s City Edition uniform, which is nicknamed “California Destiny” and has the first color progression on a Lakers uniform with a reflective gradient from black to purple representing the team’s 65-year evolution in Los Angeles, is the first jersey in team history to say “Lake Show” across the chest.

This City Edition court is the Lakers’ first alternate court outside of last year’s NBA Cup/in-season tournament court that the NBA developed.