Ramon Sessions, 2014-2015 regular season stats (w/ Washington Wizards): 7.4 PPG, 2.7 RPG, 3.1 APG, .41 FG%, .40 3P%, 19.5 minutes, 28 games

Ever since the halcyon days of Antonio Daniels, backup point guard has been by far the most unstable position for the Washington Wizards. Into that breach steps Ramon Sessions, the one player on the team whose existence I think everyone has forgotten about.

A 29-year-old journeyman with his seventh NBA team, Sessions went from Career Wizards Killer to Career Wizard at the trade deadline, and performed reasonably well after a change of scenery from a hideous Sacramento squad.

When John Wall broke his hand in the playoffs, it was Sessions who jumped into the starting lineup, even dropping 21 points in Game 2.

With Sessions’ career penchant for making mincemeat of the Washington Wizards, it was easy for DC fans to inflate his abilities beyond what they were – and with his terrible run in Sacramento, it was just as easy for DC fans to deflate his abilities below what they were.

But with a bigger sample size and a healthy organization (I can’t believe I’m actually calling the Wizards that, but we’ve come a long way), we see Ramon Sessions for what he really is: a decent, but quite flawed, NBA rotation player.

He probably won’t win you games, but he usually won’t lose them. Sessions is very limited, but he’s really good at what he’s good at – which usually involves him dribbling in a straight line at the basket.

Sessions’ ability to get to the hoop and draw contact is legitimately top-notch, and he could have averaged double-digit points last season if he could have made a layup. That lack of finishing at the rim is endlessly frustrating, and his 50.4% shooting mark at the rim was quite poor.

Sessions managed to partly make up for that with his 3-point shooting, which jumped through the roof after he moved to Washington: from 21.4% as a King to 40.6% as a Wizard. For his career, Sessions has very rarely been a plus 3-point shooter, and one should expect him to regress back to around his career mark, 31.2%.

Sessions can handle the ball well enough, and pass the ball well enough. He’s not the creative playmaker that you really want, and he doesn’t provide the scoring punch that you really want, but he’s solid enough offensively.

He’s a poor defensive player, but teams have managed to hide his deficiencies – let’s not forget that he spent much of last season with the single best defensive rating of any player in the entire league, despite opponents shooting 22.8% better than their season averages against him from inside six feet, and 13.9% better than their season averages from inside 10 feet. (That still baffles me, by the way, but it happened.)

Sometimes you need guys like that. Ramon Sessions isn’t a great player – he’s almost remarkable in how unremarkable he is – but he can steer the second unit. We lived through the Eric Maynor Era, so we shouldn’t take that lightly.

Sessions is a completely forgettable basketball player, but it’s better to be forgettable than memorable for the wrong reasons. Really, have you ever met anyone with anything really bad to say about Ramon Sessions? The Washington Wizards could stand to upgrade, sure. But he probably won’t crash the team into a ditch when he’s in.

That’s the thing: the Wizards have John Wall. When you have a starter like that, the only thing you need out of your backup is for him to not blow absolutely everything for those 15 minutes or so he’s in the game. Ramon Sessions? He can probably do that. That’s all we need to ask for.