Jackson shortened his rotation again in game 3, finding just 11 minutes for Luke Walton, three minutes for slumping Sasha Vujacic and keeping Shannon Brown on the bench the whole game.
Blake, 30, is good enough, experienced enough and defensively tough enough to be a wizard when Farmar, Shannon Brown and Sasha Vujacic have only been the tin man, scarecrow and cowardly lion.