A hot topic amongst fans, the playing time of Jason Maxiell was ultimately a mixed bag this season. Unless coach Steve Clifford has more personnel control than is perceived, this could be Maxiell's one and only season for the Hornets.
Other than maybe Gary Neal, who ended his stint with the Hornets on a horrid shooting slump, no other player was greeted with more vitriol than Jason Maxiell. When the team brought in the ten year veteran big man, many fans saw him as little more than a break-in-case-of-emergency type player. However, in his season preview here on At the Hive it was predicted that he might be coach Steve Clifford's Jeff Adrien, aka the undersized "center" that plays over fan favorite Bismack Biyombo.