The Lakers won, but Jackson wasn't particularly thrilled. He knew exactly how they had won today, and this kind of victory was unsustainable. This wasn't a single-elimination game; it was a playoff series.
Jackson knew very well that the Phoenix Suns were no pushovers. The league couldn't blatantly favor the Lakers forever. The bias in this game was just a helping hand to prevent the Lakers from losing too humiliatingly. In a way, it only proved how terribly the Lakers were playing and how massive their problems were—so massive that the league couldn't bear to watch and had to step in.
Therefore, in the upcoming games, even if they managed to force a Game 7, Jackson felt there was a high probability the Lakers would still be eliminated. If they didn't solve the Nowitzki problem, the Lakers were guaranteed to lose. But when it came to that, Jackson truly had no solutions.
