How Good Are These Lakers?

I've never seen a tougher, more physically tested Lakers team than the one I saw play against the Dallas Mavericks on March 31, 2011. Steve Blake taking offense for Jason Terry shoving him to the floor for a hard foul, for one. I think these Lakers are prepared to take for what they see later on in the playoffs. No easy baskets. Everything playoff-tested basketball teams offer to give to you on their way to the NBA championship round are all hard to get baskets. You earn them at the free throw line. No way. The physicality of this basketball game between the Mavs and Lakers did not rattle the Lakers. Kobe Bryant is more than prepared to take what is his: his sixth NBA championship ring. There's no stopping his way to the NBA Finals.