The Pacers will battle the Lakers at Conseco Fieldhouse on Tuesday night, and Indiana coach Jim O'Brien is excited to get a live look at Phil Jackson's triangle offense.

"It's a great offense," Jim O'Brien said. "It's a great offense with a lot of weapons, and when you have one of the top three players in the league (Kobe Bryant), if not the best player in the league, and then you have (Pau) Gasol and (Andrew) Bynum . . . then a good offense with good players is a nice combination."

O'Brien knows that defending the offense will be a difficult task.

"It's just different triangles that in a natural setup has a wing, corner, post triangle," O'Brien said. "It's kind of an overload situation. It's a perfectly spaced offense where you cannot get your normal weak-side defense loaded up on guarding or helping. When I think of triangle offense, they always have people perfectly spaced. To me, it seems that with that spacing you can always draw some triangles if you stop anybody at the same time."