It's Smush World After All - Lakers Win in Milwaukee

Smush Parker scored 16 of his 20 points in the first period seven steals to go along with Kobe Bryant's 33 points and Parker had 20 points and to lift the Los Angeles Lakers to their ninth straight win over Milwaukee, 111-92 on Tuesday night.

"This is more than what I expected," Parker said. "But I'm never satisfied. I'm playing well right now, and I want to continue playing well."

Lamar Odom added 24 points and Chris Mihm had 13 as the Lakers beat the Bucks for the 18th time in the last 20 meetings.

"Smush did a great job getting his hands on balls," Bryant said. "We did a great job pressuring them."

Bryant went 14-of-24 from the field for his best shooting percentage this season, a game after hitting just 9-of-30 in a sluggish win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Sunday. The Lakers shot 48 percent (43-of-89) on Tuesday night.

"Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said before the game. "I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl."

Jackson said afterward the Lakers were still looking for confidence, but Parker says has the solution.

"Wins," he said. "We've lost a lot of games we should've won. Of course that deters our confidence a little bit. But these wins, if they keep coming, we'll get more confident."

Michael Redd scored 21 points for Milwaukee, which had its three-game winning streak snapped.