Hello and welcome to a Tuesday edition of Locked-on Warriors.

I'm Wes Goldberg, Warriors beat writer for the Mercury News.

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Today we're getting into Eric Pascal's exit interview, and it wasn't a great year for

Pascal, but he should have a chance to prove himself next year. Before we get into all of that,

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All right, let's get right into it.

We'll talk about what went wrong for Eric Pas Pascal and how he fits into things for the Warriors

next season, but let's start with what went right.

And look, it wasn't all bad for Eric Pascal.

Actually, his per 36 numbers were better across the board than in his rookie year.

The per game stats were a little bit down, but that's because he had less playing time,

because he wasn't the center of the offense when Steph Curry was injured like he was in his

rookie year. They had Steph, they had Andrew Wiggins, had all these other guys, so he didn't play

as much, not as much opportunity. The counting stats go down, but the per 36 numbers were actually

up. He goes from 18.2 points per game as a rookie

to 19.7 points, not per game, per 36 minutes in his second year. His shooting percentage

stayed the same, 49.7% overall, which still isn't great, but at least it stayed the same and

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