The newest Laker has been told to quickly digest the complex triangle offense, which once took a whopping 320 pages for Tex Winter to examine in a book.

After the Lakers dropped 13 out of 16 games, Phil Jackson and his assistant (and creator of the triangle offense) Tex Winter asked Bryant to carry his team.

Still, if you look for this pattern this month you'll find that, around the time of the winter solstice, the Summer Triangle is descending in the west in early evening.