Timberwolves sign Sessions to offer sheet

Especially because we have no idea what he’ll end up being like down the line.

There’s also a dearth of teams that actually are really smarting at the PG position, most either have good PGs or at least think that they have good PGs for the future.

This is a bad move for Minnesota…. (explanation added here) because they are almost assuring themselves that Rubio will not be coming to Minnesota. It is also a bad move when you look at what they started with this summer – the #6 pick, Foye and Miller – and what they have now – Flynn / Sessions. Kahn needs to stop hedging his bets – if he felt like Rubio was this one of a kind talent than he should have just handed him the offense like the Bulls did with Rose. It seems likely that Rubio would be in Minnesota right now if Kahn had never chosen Flynn. Why would Rubio want to compete with Flynn, its a losing proposition.

If you think that Rubio is a transcendent talent, than get him to Minnesota and making him the starting point guard by any means possible. But if you don’t believe that, why the hell are you picking him? The Timberwolves don’t have 3 years to wait for Rubio – if I’m the owner I kind of want to start making money now.

I also don’t think you can make a legit argument for acquiring Sessions and Flynn in the same summer. I mean, you could make the same argument for the Bulls keeping Hinrich. A team with few assets better hold on to every player they can get. But after a while, you have to take a leap of faith. Sessions is going to retard Flynn’s development, there is no doubt about that. I don’t see much point in using the #6 pick on a player who is going to be a back up for the next 4 years.

I also think you are overrating how much of an asset picks like Flynn and Rubio are. Draft picks are like new cars. As soon as you choose one, the value immediately starts to drop. How much value is Flynn going to have in a year as a back up point guard? What if Flynn has a year like Mike Conley, who is going to give you equal value to a #6 pick than? When is Flynn ever going to get a chance to start, Sessions is only 25? What if Rubio doesn’t set the world on fire for Barcelona – what if his value never is as high as it was this summer? There are so many unknowns I think the smarter things would have been to keep the assets you can count on (Foye, Miller), than make the Rubio pick, and than once you knew for sure about Rubio, pursue Sessions. Instead the Timberwolves basically gave away Foye and Miller for the rights to have Rubio 3 years from now – maybe.

So as a singular move, signing Sessions isn’t bad. But as a culmination of summer moves that saw the Timberwolves pursue 3 point guards and give up the 3rd and 4th best players on their teams, I don’t see how this can be construed as anything other than a bumbling summer.

The T-Wolves have 2 power forwards, 2 point guards and pretty much nothing else.

have been reported to have interests on signing Sessions. Again they have failed to lure a free agent to play for them, like J Kidd and Grant Hill, oh man, D’Antoni is in hell.

but it’s puzzling.

i don’t agree that rubio would necessarily be playing for the wolves w/out flynn around because the nba only permits putting 500k towards a buyout and such and instead they can get him in 2 years and pay nothing.

they may figure flynn and sessions are their pgs for now and probably trade one to accommodate rubio in 2 years. if sessions is decent, his contract won’t be terrible and they will probably be able to get rid of him. i dunno. if one of the three was more of a combo guard this move would make more sense.

The arrogance and entitlement of a Knicks fan, everyone.

It’s almost on par with the arrogance and entitlement of Blazer fans.

:p

is sessions any good?..like i mean is he worth the money?