DOMINANT GAME RECALLS '01 BLITZ JACKSON LIKES OLD TRAITS LAKERS SHOW.(Sports)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: May 1, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Howard Beck Staff Writer

EL SEGUNDO - The good feelings of a rout that buffed up the Lakers' dingy aura and pushed them within one victory of a first-round triumph were still lingering Wednesday, and suddenly Phil Jackson had San Antonio on his mind.

By late tonight, the Lakers' coaching staff might well be drafting strategy for a perhaps-inevitable reunion with the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals. But it wasn't the near future that had Jackson's synapses firing; it was the not-so-distant past.

Two years ago, the Lakers strung together the most ...

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