LOS ANGELES — Before today’s game against the Detroit, someone was asking me what I was planning to write about Blake Griffin; honestly, my plan was not to. As a fan, I loved Blake more than just about any Clipper in my lifetime, but he isn’t a part of the current iteration of this team. I was far more interested in how LA would dominate the weaker Pistons and how Tobias Harris would assert himself against a team that had traded him.
As it turns out, neither of those things happened. The Clippers got blitzed early, and Harris never really found his footing as LA lost a close one.