PLAYA VISTA >> Doc Rivers has it in his coaching notes: “Blake should be a point man from the elbow.”
Put Blake Griffin on the side of the lane, put all the other Clippers in motion, make the defense scatter, and let the most versatile power forward in the NBA run his own version of the Oklahoma triple option. Pass, drive or shoot.
“Lawrence Frank (executive vice president, basketball operations) pointed that out the other day,” Rivers said Wednesday. “That’s been in my notes since the first week I took the job. But we haven’t done it.