Usually, Pelican fans in the center of Sha ICEKING will only shout slogans neatly in two situations. One is that when Zion Williamson shows the color, they will shout “MVP”. The other is that when Jose Alvarado has an amazing performance, the “Jose Song”, which is written by fans themselves, will be heard on the spot “.
It is hard to imagine that a drop draft that has not been converted into a guarantee contract this season will be so popular with fans.
At the beginning, Alvarado became famous against the ghostly thief ball. Some people called him “strange thief” and others called him “old Six”. Alvarado’s ambush on the bottom line and the sideline brought some fun to the game when the opponent did not pay attention to the stolen ball, but Alvarado himself knew, it is obvious that the pirate ball, which cannot be completed once only in these games, cannot help him to stand on the alliance when he was born in the talent show.
Now Alvarado has won the love of Pelican fans and the trust of Pelican generals. He has proved himself to be a qualified NBA player by passion, defense and continuous progress in projection and field reading.
Alvarado is a puerto ricans born in new york. Although he was born in the united states, his circle of life made him not so keen on playing basketball. For Puerto Ricans, baseball is the first sport. Alvarado grew up play baseball, and then he tried rugby again. In alvarado’s words, playing basketball was purely accidental. An accidental opportunity, he played basketball with his friends in the park, and suddenly fell in love with basketball since then. In the fifth and sixth grades, Alvarado suddenly decided to focus on basketball.
Alvarado’s father is willing to support his son’s dream. He is a nine-to-five office worker, but in order to support his son to realize his dream, he is still willing to get up at four o’clock in the morning to train with his son.
Children in New York all regard Stephen Marbury and Kenny Anderson as heroes in their minds, and Marbury and Anderson both went to Georgia Institute of Technology. Alvarado was also born in New York and went to Georgia Institute of Technology after graduating from high school. However, Alvarado was different from other children. He did not want to regard Marbury and Anderson as his goals because Marbury, anderson’s sexy style with strong street ball performance style has nothing to do with him. He said, “Their style is different from mine. I began to watch other people’s matches, I like Chris Paul’s style very much. I study everyone’s style of play and find my own way of success.”
Alvarado’s success is defense. When he was a junior at Georgia Tech University, Alvarado realized that he had a chance to impact NBA. As a short defender with a height of only 1.83 meters, he must be unique if he wants to stand out. The way Alvarado finds success is defense.
“I want to make the team better with my own defense. When I play, I am not afraid of anyone. I believe I am the best defender,” Alvarado said. In the fourth season, he sent 74 steals in 26 games, with an average of 2.8 matches. He was elected as the best defensive player of the year in ACC.
In 2021, Alvarado participated in the NBA draft. He thought he could be selected in the second round, but what he finally waited for was defeat. Alvarado received a call from the broker before he could be disappointed. The broker told him that pelican might give him a two-way contract and give him a chance.
Alvarado said: “At that moment, I celebrated crazily as if I had been elected the first star.”
Alvarado entered the NBA, but no one took this young rookie who had played in college for 4 years as his eyes. Pelican only regarded him as the fourth point guard. Under normal circumstances, on the 13th show in 2020, little Kira-Lewis and the more experienced satorance Foundation competed for the backup guard. Alvarado could only go to the G League to fight. However, opportunities always appear inadvertently, and grasping once is enough to turn over. Little Lewis was injured and reimbursed. Satoransky had a net negative of 13.4 points in the Pelican’s 100 rounds. Pelican suffered from the ineffectiveness of the substitute guard. Willy-green used Alvarado with a try attitude.
Alvarado did become popular with those ghosts stealing balls, but those stolen balls that were greatly rendered covered Alvarado’s real value, how can a defensive shrew who has won the best defensive player award in the competition area only take advantage of his opponent’s unprepared to steal the ball? Alvarado’s judgment on the opponent’s passing route is very accurate. He is a short but not afraid of defending a taller player. He has a good hand in top defense and can make offensive fouls and cut the ball from behind. When Alvarado was present, he could always drive the team with passion and defense. Most importantly, Alvarado has a guard instinct and can control the rhythm. So when he was present, Pelican scored 112.1 points in the hundred rounds and only lost 104.8 points. His presence in the hundred rounds goal difference 7.3 points, the highest in the team.
In March 2022, Alvarado signed a four-year contract worth $6.88 million. In the 2022-23 season, alvarado’s contract was guaranteed only 1.1 million dollars, the 2023-24 season was not guaranteed, and the 2024-25 season was the team option.
Judging from this contract, pelican is still not at ease with alvarado. After all, Alvarado has limited talent, and no one knows whether he can keep output when his opponent has more research on it.
“Many people told me that many players had regressed in the second year of their career. I don’t want me to have this kind of experience. I hope people praise me for my progress,” alvarado said, “Defense is my label, but I am also an all-round player. I can be an excellent point guard and a deadly shooter. I can help the team win.”
In order to make progress, Alvarado dialed the phone number of Tony Parker, Spurs resident, hoping to train with Parker, he wanted to know how Parker, who was not good at projection in the early stage of his career, developed accurate CIC and good three points in the middle and late stages. Parker gave Alvarado a lot of suggestions. Alvarado found that he had a little connection with parker, and the two had the same perspective in many aspects, which made alvarado’s confidence skyrocketed.
This season, alvarado laid the role of his pelican chief substitute guard. He scored 10 points, 3.2 assists and 1.3 steals in 21.3 minutes, field goal percentage 46.9 percent, the three-point hit rate is 40.2%. When he was present, Pelican scored 118.5 points in the hundred rounds, losing only 104.4 points. When he was present, the goal difference of the hundred rounds of +14.1 was the highest in the team, and far exceeded last season. His three-point shooting rate of receive the ball reached 41.9%, and he suppressed the shooting rate of his defensive players at 39.2%, suddenly becoming one of the best 3D players. In addition, following parker’s special training, alvarado’s basket end efficiency soared, and the frequency of throwing has also increased a lot.
“I like his performance. He is an excellent defender, especially for the ball. He can always make trouble for his opponents. He can break the ball and actively rush to cricket,” green explained, “on the offensive end, he can stabilize the team and carry out the correct tactics.”
Pelicans have many high-ranking new stars, but most of them have to give up their positions to alvarado in the key fourth quarter. This season, Alvarado has the second place in the team in the fourth quarter, second only to mccolum. The fourth session was the fifth place in the team, only behind the three cores and little nance.
Last season, in the first battle between pelicans and timberwolves, de angelo russell fell into a struggle in the face of the attacked alvarado for a while. I don’t know whether to jump on and seal his three-point goal, he didn’t know this little unknown figure at all and could only shout at the coaching staff on the court, “Can this guy vote?”
The forest wolf coaching team hasn’t answered yet. Alvarado answered first: “yes, of course I can vote.”
Alvarado can not only shoot.
“Someone may think I’m crazy when I say it, but I want to enter the all-star rookie challenge, I want to enter the discussion of the best defensive lineup quota, and I want to be one of the best point guards. Maybe these will not happen this season, but I hope everyone knows that they can consider me when selecting.”
“These are all my dreams, and I will keep chasing them.”