Baron Davis EXPOSES Knicks’ Biggest Playoff Weakness!

Baron Davis EXPOSES Knicks’ Biggest Playoff Weakness!

So, this is another episode of Worst Take, where we go around the NBA media landscape as it relates to the New York Knicks and react to this sound bite. You people in the chat are the judges. You rate the take, one being trash, five being facts, and that’s the rules. Okay, so the first clip is from our guy Baron Davis Al, formerly of the Knicks tape. Nicks, friend of the program as well. I’ve, you know, I’ve separated him from that clown, Draymond Green. And Baron’s actually a good guy. So, he’s a friend of the program. Came on Nick Fan TV. We got to put that, we got to put that interview out. Actually, I put I got that. I’ll throw that in the archives uh next month during the dog days. But anyway, Baron Davis was on the podcast peace show and talked about some of the Knicks struggles as he saw it from the point guard standpoint in the playoffs and what it should be looking like going forward. All right, so let’s listen to BD and uh and react to it on the other side. Here we go. Let me just make sure the sound is good. Let’s see. Do you see that as a recipe for winning? At first I didn’t. Yeah, but he’s so cold, bro. He cold. He bro, he’s so cold. He’s talking about Jaylen Brunson. Y’all can’t with this dude, bro. Nobody can nobody can stop him. My problem with that series is if you watch what happened where Indiana was successful is half court started to become another defender and a problem for him. Mhm. So bringing the ball up the court against pressure, then you get that pick and roll happening damn near right by half court. So he ain’t got like his like even though like the court got bigger and wider, his space got limited. Mhm. And so I think you need another guard. You need somebody that can handle pressure, bring the ball up. And if you put that dude in the block oneonone down the stretch, you gotta You gotta double, bro. You got to double. Like, it’s crazy. It’s crazy. Nobody can guard him. Yeah. Nobody can guard him. He gets his Yeah. He’s so crafty. And so, can you get him off the ball? cuz what happened or like nobody on the Knicks outside of Jaylen Brunson could bring the ball up the court. That’s the only reason why they lost. Mhm. Indiana puts pressure, you turn the ball over. Indiana puts pressure then you extend your offense and now you know Carl Anthony Towns got to play one-on-one from the top of the key the entire series. Now he talented as He can do that, but you can’t get you can’t figure out where a mismatch is, nothing because you still you playing at a almost like a frantic pace all the time. So, if they can find somebody and they eating clock, they tearing the clock up. They tearing the clock up. So, he dribbling the whole, right? He got the ball the whole shot clock. He can’t even get off the ball, push off, get some space, and now have a live dribble. He don’t get he don’t get none of that. And so, one, that’s a testament to coaching. Like, if you don’t work on a press break, if you don’t know how to get your best player in multiple situations to be effective, and then if you only have one primary ball handler, that is your primary scoreer, that is your primary playmaker, and you going to wear him out. Yeah. And so, you know, hopefully whoever comes in next is looking at how do we how do we make Jaylen Brunson dynamic? Al, your thoughts? I thought all that was fair. I There’s nothing worse. There’s no That is not a worse take. That was a good take. I agree with everything that he said because look, you keep you can go back to listen to Melo Shump and Cass talking about it on uh 700 p.m. in Brooklyn, right? And the one thing that we saw throughout the playoffs is that as the series, whether it was Pistons bought the Celtics or the Pacers, Brunson is amazing. You want the you want the rock in your best player’s hand at all times. I get that, but you need to be able to create for him as well. And that’s utilizing him offball, having another answer offensively. So that way, once again, as we just talked about with Mike Brown and potentially Pablo Pre joining the staff is you want to create offensive diversity, right? And we didn’t have that. And so if you got to rely on Jaylen Brunson to constantly bring up the rock, like the defense knows what it’s going to do. And they’re looking to blitz him. though can get him into corners, forcing him to make tough decisions, forcing turnovers, and not saying that he can’t handle that pressure. But as that wears on over a seven game series, you’re going to start to slip. You’re not going to be perfect every single night. And you’re now asking Jaylen Bruns to be perfect every single night to execute when you start to see those blitzes. You start to see the different coverages, and you’re asking him to be out there more than he should because when you’ll get your bench, you’re not relying on campaign. Dylon Wright’s not going to be breaking down somebody. McBride is not going to be somebody that’s going to take someone to the cup and just create just the same way that Jaylen Brunson does. So, I agree with you want to be able to get him more more off ball to get him better looks because how many times did we see, you know, after a timeout, Tibs draws up a play, Brunson gets the ball in the corner, knocks down a three, and that was the easiest look that he got throughout the game. Right. So, look, I agree with everything they said. That’s why we have the conversation. See if you talk about needing another point guard, right? So, hey, I I I agree with that take. That take is that’s a solid take by uh Boom Dizzle. Yeah, that that was a five for me. Definitely a five. Um we we’ve talked about this this concept of of Brunson being off ball. It’s just so many people in so many different ways. And from that pace of series on down, he spoke about Baron Davis spoke about the fact that they need another bowler handler. Another another topic that we’ve that we’ve ran ragged on the on on this show and he spoke about the it’s an indictment on the coaching which I think is part of the reason why Tibs is no longer here along with other things. But when you look at the fact that they brought in a Brown or they’re looking to get the the offense more dynamic, they bring in a Nori, they bring in a Pione, I don’t think Carl Anthony Towns was one of those guys that was uh raising his hand to save Tibs during the exit beatings. You know what I’m saying? But with with all that being said, he he was right, man. like you know the the flaws and D said it you know a lot of their flaws got exposed in that series and so the challenge is going to be for Mike Brown how do they mix up the offense where it’s not solely reliant on Jaylen because as Baron said he’s the primary playmaker the primary scoreer on that team a good defense is going to make you moreed one-dimensional and then when you Couple the fact that because there’s no diversity in the offense, there’s a lack of ball movement, it’s a my turn, your thing turn thing where you’re making Carl Anthony Towns be a one-on-one player from the top of the key a lot of the times and that’s not his game. That’s it’s just not going to work. You know, it’s not going to work. Like Melo said at 7 p.m. in Brooklyn, shout out Brandon Guest, we we need another NEOard, we need another NEOard on the team. But but it’s like he’s he’s right. So this is why I look at Mal Bridges and why when fans are like, “Yo, you can’t you can’t sign and why they give up the picks.” We we can’t look at back in the past. We got to look at what we have right now. And if you can’t get better than that, then you got to figure out how to utilize him as your secondary tertiary ball handler to to run offense through. It’s that simple, bro. For sure. And look, that’s why I was asking for during the regular season. I was like, we got this guy. We allowed guys like R.J. to be someone that led that second unit, to be a creator, to be an initiator. Why aren’t we allowing Bridges to do that? And we’re just giving Towns the full reigns of the second unit. And he’s not a creator. He still needed to be set up by campaign, whether it be working the post, being found on the perimeter, and look, talented score, but and for as much heat as he got here, Julius, at least you could say did that to re relieve Brunson of being the sole creator, right? Not saying Julius was perfect, but at least he had somebody that can bring the ball up and start something. That’s what Bridges needs to do. And that’s probably the one thing I disagree with when they talked about uh Bridges on uh 7 PM in Brooklyn. It’s like, “No, no, no, no, no. He needs to be the guy that goes out there and does that. Man, there is a little bit more. We saw him do it out in Brooklyn. We know he’s capable of doing that. He should be able to do that here in New York. Give him the reps. Give him the reps.” Right. And I if look, yes, you can go out there, go get another point guard, but that’s the that’s part of the reason why he brought in Bridges, too, to be that dynamic wing to add a little bit more to the game to add that diversity. And we saw that, too. We saw it when Brunson was out. All right, we saw that when Brunson was out, Bridges was initiating the offense. It was by committee, but we saw, okay, even by committee, there is something there. And maybe if you give him more reps, he can get comfortable. Sometimes what it is for player CP is that even though they might not be great at it, they just need more reps to feel more comfortable and more confident because the game of basketball is about confidence. All right? They tell you to shoot with confidence. You can’t dribble without confidence either. So give Bridges those opportunities, man. I hope Mike Brown does that. Hey, I think he was politicking for that reason. We saw that man out in summer league sitting next to coach Brown for a reason. Yeah. And I think even with Leon Rose and G uh Gerson, right, I think the idea is like look, we Bridges was here underutilized for Tom Tibido did not fit what Tibs likes to do. You got to make it different. We made this investment. Forget the picks. You got to sign him. You can’t let this man walk. He’s going to get paid. But and if you’re gonna pay him, utilize him. Give him that expanded role. So even though we still need uh another guy who can initiate the offense for the second unit, I think you got to give Bridges that chance. Yeah, I’m with you 100%. And look, if you were to play fantasy basketball and and you’re just looking for the guy, the guy’s probably booked. Long shot. Probably not going to happen for the foreseeable future. if you want to if you want to look at on a on a B level is it a you know Kobe White type again not going to happen but you know those type of players so for right now it’s Jordan Clarkson bro you know you know what I’m saying it’s a Jordan Clarkson show let’s get it cracking let’s go he man he can pass the rock man look he averaged five assists if they look he is going to put up some shots that have you scratching your head there will I think everyone said on the show, there will be some reminiscence of JR Smith. All right. Be like, “All right, man. Phenomenal outing, but why did you take these shots over here? What made you think that was a good idea?” Clark is going to do that, but I think the passing is the most underrated part of his game, and I think he will find guys. I think people will be a little bit more I think people will be a little a little pleasantly surprised at how well he can actually create for others and get guys going. That’s our Nard Melo. Holl at us, man. And we got our on them, man. Salute everybody in the chat. CP and Alex on the ones and twos. Worst take segment of the show. Let us know what you guys thought about B. Diddy’s comments, man. Uh Baron Davis, sorry. We We can’t use that old nickname. That’s no good around these parts anymore.

🔥 In this episode of Worst Take, we react to Baron Davis’s viral take on the New York Knicks’ playoff collapse and the overreliance on Jalen Brunson. BD joins the discussion to break down why the Knicks’ offense stalled against the Pacers, how Indiana’s pressure defense exposed the team’s lack of a secondary ball handler, and why Brunson needs more off-ball opportunities to thrive.

💬 We debate whether the Knicks should add a veteran point guard like Jordan Clarkson, expand Mikal Bridges’ role as a secondary playmaker, and what Mike Brown’s new coaching staff needs to implement to maximize the roster—including Karl-Anthony Towns.

📌 Topics Covered:

Knicks playoff offense breakdown (01:04)

Brunson vs Indiana’s full-court pressure (01:36)

The case for adding another guard (02:33)

Critique of Tom Thibodeau’s offense (03:21)

How Mikal Bridges can take on more responsibility (08:10)

Jordan Clarkson as a potential X-factor (11:18)

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