Blake has a shiny new toy, and it's effective

In the first few games of the 2017-18 season for the LA Clippers Blake Griffin has been putting up points with relative ease, especially in LA's first 4 games when the team soared to a 4-0 start. Defenses have been giving him an open shot that he's had his whole career, only know, he's able to drill them with consistency. That's the 3pt shot.

With Blake's 8th NBA being underway, he enters the season as the most complete player he has ever been. So far this season he is shooting 5.5 three-point attempts per game at a blistering clip of 42.4%. He's a legitimate shooter now and his game-winning dagger over the Portland Trail Blazers put the league on notice about his newfound, consistent accuracy from range.

Blake's three-point shooting will do nothing but good things for this LA squad. It gives DeAndre more room for his rim rolls, it unlocks Blake's pump-fake drive and finish\kick game and generally provides spacing for all his teammates to operate. While the sample size is relatively small as the NBA season is young, such developments just give more reasons for Clipper fans to be positive about this team in the wake of Chris Paul's departure. Blake Griffin is one of those rare players that has added something new to his game literally every season of his career and his game is all the more deadly for it.