LA Lakers Rumors: Why Arenas, Flynn and Sessions Can't Help This Team

What do Gilbert Arenas, Johnny Flynn and Ramon Sessions all have in common besides the fact they play the point guard position and have all been mentioned in trade rumors associated with the Los Angeles Lakers?

Each one of them are shoot-first point guards, and unfortunately for desperate Lakers fans, none of the players will make the team much better than they are right now.

I giggle at fans fantasizing and theorizing about adding Arenas, Sessions or Flynn to the Lakers roster, considering none of them particularly excel in the area of greatest need for the Lakers. And they each have other complicating factors to boot.

I admit the Lakers are in dire need of backcourt support, but I'm not quite ready to join the "Anybody but Derek Fisher" crowd just yet.

Fisher has certainly been exposed in head coach Mike Brown's schemes on both ends of the court, but what has clearly been illustrated in the Lakers' mediocre 14-11 start is the need for a competent facilitator.

And when have "facilitate" and Arenas, Flynn or Sessions been mentioned in the same sentence?

Arenas has crafted nearly his entire career on long-range shooting and his explosiveness to the rim, while Sessions' career-high average of 7.5 assists per game was reached during a 17-game span with the Milwaukee Bucks during his rookie season.

Flynn's body of work is not really large enough to form an opinion, but it is a telling fact that he averaged 13 points and only four assists during his rookie campaign.

That's not to say that Flynn can't succeed in Los Angeles, but is there any guarantee that he can improve the Lakers' postseason chances any more than rookie Andrew Goudelock?

Flynn certainly has talent, but so does Goudelock, and why shouldn't the Lakers spend their energy on developing a player they already have rather than investing time and effort on a player who does basically the same thing, and probably needs the same level of instruction?

Arenas and Sessions are more seasoned than Flynn, but no one really knows how much Arenas has left in the tank after numerous knee injuries, and even at the height of his career Arenas' skills were not suited for this offense.

The Lakers need a point guard who can utilize the Lakers size advantage in the paint with Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol, while also making sure Kobe Bryant gets his looks from the perimeter.

The qualified point guard candidate must also have the courage to go against Bryant's wishes, and the intelligence and ability to back it up when it matters the most.

Arenas' gunslinging past certainly suggests he has the courage to defy Bryant, but if he did it would most likely be in pursuit of his own shot.

Sessions has shown flashes of talent, but playing for the Bucks and Cleveland Cavaliers is not exactly the same as manning the lead for what is arguably the most successful franchise in NBA history.

Under that pretense Sessions joins Flynn as an intriguing prospect but he is still a project just the same, and a project will not carry the Lakers over their current hump of mediocrity.

I am just as frustrated with Fisher as the next Lakers fan but I would still take his experience in situations that matter over Arenas, Flynn or Sessions.

I realize that Lakers fans will argue that the team will never make it to a situation that really matters with Fisher at the helm, but the only thing is, I'm not sure they can reach that goal with any of the players mentioned above either.