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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:43 pm Post subject: Ramon Sessions
Know this is revisionist history about a player who wasn't here for very long, but what was the general consensus about Sessions at the time of the offseason when we had a chance to sign him but went after Nash instead? Did we think we were going to try to sign him or were we going to go after someone else due to him wetting the bed in the playoffs?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: Ramon Sessions
The Logo wrote:
Know this is revisionist history about a player who wasn't here for very long, but what was the general consensus about Sessions at the time of the offseason when we had a chance to sign him but went after Nash instead? Did we think we were going to try to sign him or were we going to go after someone else due to him wetting the bed in the playoffs?
if his agent hadn't screamed and tweeted "my client will not be a member of the Lakers!!" the moment Nash was signed, he may have helped Ramon's chances at coming back. _________________ How NBA 2K18 failed the All-Time Lakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMBYm3wwxk
honestly think ramon sessions would have been perfect for our lineup that year. with sessions, kobe, gasol, dwight, i think that team would have torn it up. but we got a broken nash instead. sessions would have been perfect to slash to the basket, hit the mid range, and play some solid D. _________________ Billions Billions Billions
The Lakers wanted to make a splash. I think everyone here realized it would be tough with Ramon because he was such an inconsistent shooter. At that time, I wanted the Lakers to keep Sessions for the same small contract he ended up with, and use their $ to pick up OJ Mayo. I thought that was a better deal than the contract they gave Nash and the picks they dealt in the process. Sessions deal was tiny and Mayo would have been moveable if he didn't work out. _________________ "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."-The Greatest
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:02 pm Post subject:
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honestly think ramon sessions would have been perfect for our lineup that year. with sessions, kobe, gasol, dwight, i think that team would have torn it up. but we got a broken nash instead. sessions would have been perfect to slash to the basket, hit the mid range, and play some solid D.
Eh disagree, Nash may have been a corpse and a sieve defensively but you sort of need the spacing with a past his prime MWP and Pau and Howard clogging the paint. Nash theoretically would've been the perfect fit as the shooter/ball handler but injuries happened.
Not a good fit with Kobe, an older one at that, IMO. Was stoked when we got him. But I remember, someone told him after a few weeks of being here to slooowww the pace down. I can't recall who wanted that but I think he'd have been a better fit in a more uptempo offense.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:28 pm Post subject:
ringfinger wrote:
Not a good fit with Kobe, an older one at that, IMO. Was stoked when we got him. But I remember, someone told him after a few weeks of being here to slooowww the pace down. I can't recall who wanted that but I think he'd have been a better fit in a more uptempo offense.
Mike Brown told him to slow it down and he wasn't the same player afterward.
Sessions would have torn it up under D'Antoni. I think he was a better player than current Jordan Clarkson. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
Does the fact that he is on his 9th NBA team at the age of 30 tell you he is a journeyman player? He didn't fit in the Lakers along with a bevy of other teams......I don't think there is much sleep to be lost.....
Not a good fit with Kobe, an older one at that, IMO. Was stoked when we got him. But I remember, someone told him after a few weeks of being here to slooowww the pace down. I can't recall who wanted that but I think he'd have been a better fit in a more uptempo offense.
Mike Brown told him to slow it down and he wasn't the same player afterward.
Sessions would have torn it up under D'Antoni. I think he was a better player than current Jordan Clarkson.
Ahh, ok, ir was Mike Brown. I liked Sessions a lot. But, I think he's more of an on ball kind of guy.
The type of player I'd put next to Kobe is a spot up shooting PG that plays off ball. Like Rick Fisher.
I thought he was bashed unfairly for his PO performance. He was playing well and got a shoulder injury before the playoffs. He was cold coming off an injury not shooting for a month and going into his first PO. People expected bim to be a star for some reason. Hes a good player who can really distribute the ball and run the offense. Definitely wouldve got more out of him than losing that first rounder for Nash.
He balled out his first few games here and everyone went crazy thinking he'd put us over the top. He tailed off towards the end of the year though, and then completely fell off a cliff in the playoffs.
I don't remember being particularly enthused about bringing him back after that as anything other than a backup.
he was great in the first few games, no idea what happened in the playoffs. and because of the playoffs lakers didn't resign him (or didn't want to offer as much as other teams) _________________ Kobe
The combination of his poor playoff performance and the chance to trade for Nash is what did him in. He wanted to be a starter. Ironically, I would have liked to have seen what he could have done in D'Antoni's system had he been resigned, but nobody knew that was coming.
The reason his play dropped off was because Deandre effed his shoulder in the Clippers game, he never recovered from that. _________________ How NBA 2K18 failed the All-Time Lakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMBYm3wwxk
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