You can double team a great shooter and get the ball out of his hands, like any other team would have done..Kobe wasn't working off screens all game, he was creating off the dribble and on the drive..they didn't send any traps at any point, they never sent an extra man to deny, they only had 1 man helping in the paint(even though they were the worst D in the NBA, so they obviously should have known it wasn't going to work and sent more)..they didn't even try to play physical with Kobe at any point in the game, they didn't take any shots at him in the paint..
The rest of the Lakers team sucked, and Kobe was having a historic night..it was a horrible strategy, and the Toronto media ripped the Raptors for it for a while after that..