Jose Alvarado Clamps Ja Morant (Defense Breakdown)

On Tuesday night, José Alvarado put the

clamps

on John Morant and had fun doing it as the Pelicans beat the Memphis Grizzlies. In this video we're going to break down how he did it and we're also going to look at the chain of events that started to get pretty edgy let's get into this so this is the exact timeline that we have here so this is the second quarter it's 5 47 um let's get into the game so this is what basically started it all. we have a speaker placed on top you have Ingram coming out you have tuners Okay going to the rim John Morant basically goes under the screen on Alvarado Alvarado collides with him right at the rim and there he is, right there is the gesture that started all of this you are very small, okay and it's kind of funny because how far is he so much smaller than John Moran, okay, next position, now Morant gets the ball, we have a screen with the ball here, Alvarado does it.

It was a pretty good job staying under this, but it gets a lot of help, so what really rescued it here was stuck on the screen, but the help here from Valen Tunis and Herb Jones really helped them here, so basically the action is gone. . We're back to balance now and here we are at the top of the key space, there's a man in the dumper's place. The space is kind of funny, here's three to win and then Marante just walks up to him thinner and one is okay, so it was the main clip that everyone showed you that happened in the second quarter, but the truth is that If you really look at the stats, the rap drama went toe-to-toe with Alvarado five times in this game and hit one of five right shots, which is about 20. which is pretty amazing because John Morant basically cooks every defender and Alvarado whose small size was able to contain them, so let's take a look at the highlights here and look at each possession well, so we have a one-on-one matchup here.

Right now the big um is a little bit taller so Jackson has to stay attached to his man his so there's a good driving lane here for Morant and me. Let's see if he will get help in the back or not. I'm not entirely sure if he is, but right now Alvarado is upside down, so there was an Ingram trick and this is really important, this trick here, so this Ingram trick if he really backed up. Here Ingram pretends he's going to help and then he fades to the man and what that does is actually force John Moran to continue his dribble, so John Moran picks up his dribble here and right now Alvarado is doing a fantastic job of saying : his hip and look where Moranis Moran is still outside the paint so this has to be angled more to the right so he stops on jump here and then the help finally comes in the back here so that's going to keep the dodge.

The help comes in the back and there's a big block there so this was a team effort but Alvarado did his job to stay in front and hit him like he was blocked very well so it was a team effort , so Alvarado. It wasn't like he was pure 101, he held them, but Alvarado got help from Jackson Hayes in the backfield and then also from Brandon Ingram, okay, we'll keep this one moving. Alvarado, a good defensive position already wants his man, his posture is a little different. A lot of defenders like to stay low to the ground, he keeps a good distance between himself and Murray, so as you can see, Mara is starting to make his move, but there's probably still about a meter between the two of them at the moment, right?

OK? of Ingram is a pass help and then there is potential help with Jackson Hayes here so Morant does a good job if he tried to get through that Gap Jackson Hayes would be in the way so he makes us a poster and this is pure . One-on-one basketball here starts the dribble and then this was probably the play of the game here from Alvarado, so we rewind it back, he hits it. Alvarado has probably finished The Scouting Report, he knows he's looking at that turn because his hand is already raised as soon as he feels that contact, just as he's about to turn, look at him, look at Alvarado's hand, it's already extended, so he's done, he's done the scouting report on this, he knows it, but Morant posts, this is what he's looking to do. fades out there because he was one step ahead of Marant right there okay so we'll play it in real time so you can see how everything plays out and again it's the defensive help from his teammates and also helping him but he was one step ahead.

I love this possession here, so we have a full court pickup, they run this high ball screen here. Alvarado is able to get around it, so again, why is he placing it high and then folding? This is just slowing down Moran, okay? Look. they're halfway through the shot clock, basically 12 seconds left on the shot clock, nothing has happened yet, so now we're evaluating Alvarado 101. Alvarado was retiring, so Alvarado's game plan in this The moment is to let him take the jump shot correctly so he can continue playing. he knows the move is coming, so here's that drop, so Moran will attack him from time to time, as you can see Alvarado one step forward here, so every step Moran takes, he just backs off the pedals, there's a beautiful slide because he knows the move is coming, Marant and then he turns us into a sign and this is where Alvarado makes contact, a little punch there and then Alvarado's hand there, so Marat didn't cause enough separation, so that there is a hand there.

This will be a tough competition. and that shot falls short, he is able to get the rebound and then the team's

defense

comes in as if it were ringing. Alvarado came out well, so Alvarado did a very good job in this game, he just understood John Moran's movements and what he did was fall asleep. Basically, Moran couldn't pass them and then what it took him to do was turn it into post-op opportunities and again Alvarado did his homework, so Alvarado was baiting him in the post-op once he got to the post-op. He knew what he had to do, he knew what John Moran liked to do and there was also some good help side

defense

from the other players in Jackson Hayes and Brandon Ingram who also helped him at the back, so like I said , many Sometimes with defense, um, it's about knowing your opponent and also provoking your opponent and doing the things that you want them to do well.

If you played high, John Marant took the three that will blow your mind every time, so Alvarado did a great job here you could tell he took a good look at the Scouting Report, so if you like the video, subscribe to the channel. I'm making daily videos here on YouTube, the channel was slowly growing, we actually reached I think there are 13 of us. Subscribers now mean a lot to me.