Welcome to Locked on Warriors, your podcast on All Things Warriors. I'm West Goldberg, Warriors beat writer for the Mercury News.

Cool show for you today. I'm going to be joined by the hosts of Locked on Clippers and of Locked on Lakers for my series taking stock of the Warriors competition in the West.

With the offseason pretty much over, I think this is going to be a good way to catch up with what the other teams have done and are doing and what their expectations are this season. So we'll start

with the Clippers, then get to the Lakers. Enjoy. You are Locked-on Warriors, your daily Golden

State Warriors podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network. Your team every day. I'm here now with Charles

Mockler, the host of Lock on Clippers. Charles, thanks for jumping on here. I know that the

Clippers spent the offseason basically bringing back their guys, right?

They re-sign Kauai Leonard.

That was the biggest move that they could have possibly done.

They bring back Reggie Jackson.

They bring back Serge Abaka.

But the biggest change was the acquisition of Eric Bledso.

What do you make of that trade?

And does that really move the needle?

So I think the Eric Bledso trade, it obviously hurts to see a fan favorite and someone who did

so much for the organization when things were looking pretty bleak for a couple, you know,

for a couple periods, like Pat Bev, like that just hurts for sure.

I think the Eric Bledso tread is made from an availability standpoint.

In a vacuum, in a world with no injuries, sure, I would probably much rather have Patrick

Beverly on this Clippers team. He knows the squad. He's a better shooter. He's a borderline,

better defender, push defender. But unfortunately, he has to do with injuries and he just

couldn't stay healthy which isn't his fault um obviously if you're you know real clippers fans out there

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