Kobe Bryant's Lakers Surge Forward

(Triple-Threat: Dribble) :Sighs: It seems as if the Lakers are on cloud nine right now. What is LA's MVP guard thinking about? Is he thinking about how they just demolished the Nuggets on Friday? The scoreboard only says that they won by 14, but Carmelo Anthony's FG% exposes the Nuggets. Anthony shot 5-19 including 0-3 from beyond the arc. The Lakers smothered him on defense. They realized that Anthony is Denver's energy. Phil Jackson had this to say about the strategy used: "We focused on not giving him open opportunities, getting a body on him when he gets the basketball, turning him to the baseline a lot of times and trying to keep him from the middle so he couldn’t penetrate,” Jackson said. “Vlade (Radmanovic) did a good job on him and I thought guys focused on him and knew where he was.” Even when I read what Nuggets' Head Coach George Karl had to say, I sensed some helplessness within his answer as if he knew his best offensive weapon was jammed and there was ... (link)