Our pick and roll offense really isn't too good

What's worse? Our Pick n Roll Offense or Pick n Roll defense?

LOL. Good question. I vote defense and mainly because it's immediately important. On offense we still have other options.

Gas tank: the screens are creating space for who though? If there is space then someone needs to shoot. Also Gasol has played in Memphis just as long or longer and he just doesn't set a good screen. The bigs did have to sett off the ball screens in the triangle, but it still requires a good screen even though it's different than setting a screen for a ball handler.

Creating space isn't necessarily only for getting a shot off. Obviously when Kobe gets screens he gains that slight half step separation he needs to shoot, but Sessions runs the high 1-5 pick with Bynum pretty well. It's not the traditional high screen & roll since Bynum doesn't roll, but it gives Sessions a step ahead of the defender to get into the paint.

Gasol does pick & pop instead of rolling, especially with an elbow pick that leaves him wide open for 15+ footers.

As you mentioned, the triangle utilizes off-ball screens a lot, and we're excellent at that. For ex. the baseline out of bounds play that got Kobe & Sessions wide open for straight away 3s uses at least 2 screens, including one where one screener picks off two defenders. Our guys are pretty good at setting screens, they just aren't used to the rolling part yet.

RRTX: you're right we do have more options on offense than pck and roll, but we need it because we don't want to just go into the post or have Kobe isolation mode. Our pick and roll defense has become lazy, not sure if the lack of good depth is tiring out the starters or what. I do miss how Derek would actually run right behind the ball handler until he recovers after our big would do a hard show. Sessions pick and roll defense is subpar IMO. Sessions seems confused on pick and roll defense sometimes.

Sessions hasn't so far been as good defensively as I expected. Too many times he's easily being beaten to the rim. He also needs to communicate with the others to let them know which side to commit to for help D and rotating.

Sessions' defense is exactly what I expected. Why? When the Lakers initially made the trade to acquire Ramon Sessions, John Hollinger of ESPN said that while Sessions is a tremendous upgrade over Fisher, Sessions' defense is still suspect, and Hollinger has been proven to be 100% correct in that regard.

Sessions' needs to step up his game and show the ability to provide competent perimeter defense, especially in terms of closing off driving lanes to the rim. It's going to be nothing short of critical that Sessions improve defensively if the Lakers hope to win a title this season. If guys like Tony Parker and Westbrook continue to completely dominate Sessions' offensively in the playoffs, the Lakers will be in serious trouble.

^ Nothing is set in stone, but it's not strictly a Hollinger thing. You'd be hard pressed to find a basketball analyst who doesn't have some serious doubts about Ramon's defensive ability. There's always some hope for a radical change in the near future and/or over the summer. But it would not be cool at all to find out that this is as good as it gets on the defensive end from Ramon if the Lakers lock him in on a long term deal. Some fans on here are only saying that it's more of a risk than most Lakers fans initially thought.

^^^ good point Maraud. I like Sessions, he seems like an old school pg. I wasn't expecting an allstar but I would like to see better defense and a left hand next season. He has good vision, Fish did not and Fish was done and we knew it.