This was written in response to a post on how Maggette's play is hurting the team. Let me know what you guys think.

The Warriors know what they were getting in hiring Maggette. He is a scorer, he makes his free throws, he plays within himself. He is not as dynamic of a playmaker as Jackson is. Warriors signed Maggette for those specific skills, and because of the lack of scoring, which he provides, that’s it. To be complaining about  Maggette’s inability to involve his teammates and expecting him to be a playmaker sounds a bit ridiculous. He is who he is, he’s a one dimensional player. It’s the same as if the Warriors were to sign a pure 3 point shooter and you are expecting him to help the team rebound or block shots. Not gonna happen. We shouldn’t really blame Maggette for being detrimental to the team’s success, nobody likes having a ballhog on his team, but at least he plays within himself.

On the other hand, Jackson is more than a one dimensional player, however, that also contributes to his weakness. He is a capable scorer, he has the vision of a passer. What is lacking is his ability to put a string of games together where both those skill sets come together. The highs and lows of Jackson’s performance is more dramatic than Maggette’s, and because he is being forced to do too much, I see him hurting the team’s success more this season. Hear me out on this.

Warriors are asking Jackson to do everything, scoring, passing, and defending. So far this season, he’s done scoring, passing, but he doesn’t have the energy to be a lockdown defender anymore. So not bad right? 2 out of 3 he’s getting it done. Not really. When his shots are falling, the rest of the team gets left out, no ball movement. He seems to always be in isolation plays, stab jabbing right and left, backing down defenders, maybe a few zip passes once or twice a game, that’s it. When he doesn’t get a foul called in his favor, he loses focus, doesn’t get back on defense, hurts the team defense. Remember that he is a high volume shooter, only knocking them down at 39% rate this season, which means he takes away shots from his teammates. It all make sense. He shoots a lot, but at a low percentage, less ball movement when he melts the shot clock in one on one plays, then he is forced to make zip passes that 4 out of 10 times end up being a turnover, result is the team loses on most nights.

But you say Jackson leads the team in assists (6.7/game)! But he also leads the team in turnovers (3.9/game). You have to look the assists/turnover ratio. Jackson’s A/T ratio is a dismal 1.71. A quality passer has a A/T ratio of 2.5-3.0+. Chris Paul 3.8, Jose Calderon 5(flat out crazy good), Baron Davis 3.38, Kidd 2.7 this season. Jackson is not even close. So what about the 11 assists he had in the last game and we almost won? Well, he’s injured wrist prevented him from shooting, even though he still tried 11 times (2/11). Which leads to my next point. Jackson had 11 assists(4 turnovers, A/T ratio=2.75), only took 11 shots, and he shut down DWade in the 4th quarter (2/10 shooting), we had the game won. If that wasn’t enough indication of what Jackson needs to do to help this team win, I dont know what is. Less ballhogging, more passing, shut down defender. we know he has the skills to be a multi-dimensional playmaker if he wants to. He is more dynamic than Maggette, he has the skills to lead this team, therefore we should expect more out of Jackson and not Maggette. Jackson needs to realize what he did in the Miami game that made the team so much better(if not for all those 2nd chance points, rebounding, we should've easily won by 10+ pts), don't try to do everything. Let Crawford create, let Maggette drive, let shooters shoot, run that pick and roll with Biedrin until teams can stop that, and let the game come to him.