Alvin Patrimonio Thread

[PaulLee32]

Nobody could do those moves - spin, pivot, better than Alvin Patrimonio. I say pag nagkasabay si Alvin & Junmar Fajardo, a 6-foot-6 Alvin Patrimonio would easily take a 6-10 Junmar Fajardo to school.

I think Alvin's biggest asset aside from his skills was that he never get intimidated by his defenders even if they were 3 to 4 inches taller than him. At ang lakas ng shooting power ni Alvin. Sureball talaga mga tira nya sa ilalim or from short range to mid-range.

Alvin Patrimonio still averaged 16.7 ppg, 6 rpg and 3 apg when the Fil-Americans and Fil-Ams arrived in 1999. He adjusted playing the small forward position. It sucks he retired in 2004 due to knee injuries.

 

[magic_chiongson2]

alvin patrimonio was like a 6'3" kevin mchale

 

[Metta2]

It's illuminating that one of the players in our GOAT conversation was a 6'3-6'4 power forward.

 

[JAMSKIE2]

I remember there were three players in that Kaypee commercial: Patrimonio, Paras and Magsanoc(?). If I'm not mistaken, the comercial ended up with something like, "put yourself in their shoes."

Kaypee models during that time were Patrimonio, Mon Fernandez & Hector Calma.

While Adidas models were Jolas, Elmer Cabahug, Ronnie Magsanoc, Jerry Codinera & Benjie Paras.

Jolas, Paras & company were described by Adidas advertisement as "the future of Philippine basketball"... "put yourself in their shoes".

 

[PaulLee32]

A 34 years old Alvin Patrimonio vs. a 25/26 years old Eric Menk Menk was the 2000's version of Alvin.​

 

[magic_chiongson2]

it was fun watching patrimonio school us ncaa guards at the post. iirc he started as a small forward for the centennial team and when they were playing tuneups against us ncaa teams they sent guards/wings to defend him and boy he feasted on offense lol

 

[PaulLee32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_ABC_Championship

A 21 years old Alvin Patrimonio averaged 14.3 ppg in the 14th ABC Championship. Philippines finished 4th place with a 4-3 record