LONDON �" Kobe Bryant has been searching for spacing and freedom and
flow on offense, for a way to counter defenses bent on sagging and suffocating him on
the floor. Even before the Los Angeles Lakers delivered him point guard Steve Nash,
Bryant had raised an idea with coach Mike Brown about the possibility of employing a
distant cousin to the triangle �" the Princeton offense.
So there was Brown and Bryant in a side room in a Las Vegas gymnasium during Team USA's
training camp in early July, listening to Eddie Jordan detail the offense's
intricacies, laying out how
Bryant,....
