The Mavericks got the 1981 champion pick, and this champion pick is also the only champion pick in the Mavericks' more than 30-year history, the Mavericks used this champion pick in the 1981 NBA draft to select Mark Aguirre from DePaul University, many old fans commented that the Mavericks that year were blind, because the second place was Isaiah Thomas, but in fact, Aguirre is not weak at all, but there are no outstanding teammates to get better honors.

Aguirre is 198 cm tall, serving in the second and third positions, wearing the No. 24 jersey, Aguirre is full of honors in college, and has been selected for the United States Olympic men's basketball team, to reach such a height, Aguirre is naturally not a general, he is strong, comprehensive offensive and defensive, singles ability is very good, is the singles king of that era, his back singles can not be defended, turn around and jump back, half-turn hook hand, impeccable footsteps under the basket, there are mid-range shots, there are three points, and the rebounding ability is not weak, What's even worse is that Aguirre's dribbling ability is also good, he can pass the ball but his teammates generally don't pass as long as they don't have a particularly good opportunity, and the opponent usually packs Aguirre's back under the basket, but Rao is like this, Aguirre can still get out of the space, so as to shoot confidently.

But Aguirre is not without his shortcomings, compared to the enthusiasm of the NBA, Aguirre is a little too introverted, and he communicates less with his teammates on the court, and often falls into a solitary situation in the game, so to speak, Aguirre is a player with impeccable skills, but not a competent leader. His solo fight, in the early days of the Mavericks' construction, was the guarantee of the team's survival, but when the Mavericks wanted results, it was not a perfect team "answer".

At the beginning of the first season of his career, Aguirre suffered an elbow injury, and then slowly found his form on the bench, slowly conquered coach Dirk Motta with his performance, and played the starting role in the second half of the season, averaging 18.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, although the average playing time is only 28.8 minutes per game, but the usage rate is as high as 29.8%, which is already the use rate of the leading stars.

In addition to Aguirre, the Mavericks were selected with the ninth pick, a player from Panama, Rolando Blackman, Blackman is the second player in the history of the Mavericks to retire his jersey, No. 22, Blackman is 198 cm tall, serving in the second and third positions, looking a bit like the later Sean Livingston, both have a thin face, a mustache, his personality and Aguirre are simply a positive, a negative, Aguirre is silent and introverted, but Blackman is passionate, he is not afraid of the sky, he is not afraid of the earth, no matter who you are, Lao Tzu is the best player in the world, even if he meets Jordan, Blackman only has two words, that is, "him"!

Blackman has amazing singles skills, excellent breakthrough ability, and a one-handed pull-up jump shot, and his stop-and-go jump shot rhythm is not quite the same as the average person - before the body is completely free to stretch out, the ball has already shot, on the offensive end, breaking, shooting, three-pointers, making fouls, no Blackman will not, he is passionate in the game, enthusiastic style of play, but also captured a large number of fans, so that the Mavericks have accumulated a lot of popularity at the beginning of the season, in their debut season, Blackman played primarily off the bench and averaged 13.3 points and 3.1 rebounds in just 24 minutes per game.

The Mavericks have a unique vision in terms of drafting, capturing two cornerstone-level players in a row, Aguirre and Blackman, but don't think this is the end, there is another great god who has not been introduced.

Jane Vincent, selected by the Mavericks with the 24th pick in the first round of the 1982 draft, averaged 21.4 points per game in his first season, beating Aguirre and becoming the team's leading scorer!

Vincent is 201 cm tall and plays the No. 3 position, how to say it, he is also a lone wolf, but he has the ability to be a lone wolf, that is, his single ability is very good, and his shooting rate is as high as 49.7% More than Aguirre and Blackman don't like to pass, but his defense is better, in addition to averaging 21.7 points per game, there are 7 rebounds and 1.1 steals of additional output, when Aguirre was injured, Vincent stepped up and made a successful debut.

Three first-round picks, selected three capable lone wolves, and the second-round draft pick Mavericks were not wasted, and the 196-centimeter-tall guard Alston Turner was selected, who became the team's starter, averaging 8.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 25 minutes per game, compared to the overall 43 pick, this report card can be said to be very satisfying.

After talking about the players, talking about head coach Motta, Motta is a head coach who has been almost forgotten by NBA fans, Baidu can't find this person, but in fact, Motta also has a place in the NBA, Mota was born in Utah in 1931, won the NBA Best Coach in 1971, and led the 44-38 Washington Bullets in the 1977-1978 season all the way to win the NBA championship that year, with a total of 935 wins and 1017 losses in his coaching career. But in terms of the total number of coaches, Motta can be called a great coach, he is one of the very few in history, has never had a coach who has ever had player experience in high school, college or even professional league, after graduating from the University of Utah, Motta took the lead in starting from the high school league, led Edward High School to win the championship, 1968-1969 season, became the second head coach of the Chicago Bulls, and this position was eight years, during which he led the Bulls to the playoffs for 6 consecutive years, He also won his first best coach in the 1970-1971 season, it is worth mentioning that among the players in the Bulls team at that time, there was a great coach in the NBA who would become a great coach in the NBA, his name was Jerry Sloan, and then due to the retirement of team star Chet Walker and the injury of Sloan, the Bulls only won 25 games a year, and finally resigned and came to the newly formed Mavericks, becoming the first head coach in the history of the Mavericks.

Motta has not been inducted into the Hall of Fame until now, and the reason is that he has a win rate of less than 50%, but although Motta has been taken out for research every year during his induction into the Hall of Fame, he has never been officially inducted into the ticket, but Rao is not inducted into the Hall of Fame, and it cannot hide Motta's greatness in the slightest.

This season, the Mavericks have three leading scorers and have improved significantly, winning a 28-54 record, an improvement of 13 games from last season, but such statistics only let the Mavericks get rid of the fate of the bottom of the league, and they need to work harder to enter the playoffs.

The overall strength of the 1982 draft was not strong, but there were a few players who could fight well, and the Mavericks got the No. 4 pick, but unfortunately, they chose a parallel import, Bill Garnett, a 206-tall power forward, who only spent four seasons in the NBA and then disappeared.

But in this summer, the Mavericks didn't get nothing, they only used a second-round pick, got a fierce player from the Bucks, Pat Cummings, Cummings is 206 cm tall, plays the No. 4 position, has a good mid-range shooting ability, but the confrontation is poor, his starting point is not high, the 59th pick in the third round in 1978, he played three seasons in the Bucks, played an average of 15 minutes per game and scored 7 points, but after coming to the Mavericks, he was successfully gilded and became the team's starting No. 4, He averaged 12.5 points and 8.2 rebounds per game.

This season, a healthy Aguirre has become the team's scoring champion with an average of 24.4 points per game, followed by Vincent with an average of 18.7 points per game, and the third is Blackman, averaging 17.7 points per game. So the Mavericks' game style back then was that Aguirre beat Vincent, and Vincent was tired of Blackman, what? Tactics? No tactics are needed, that's how the master came to be killed with random punches!

On January 14, 1983, the Mavericks defeated the Nuggets 149-139 and scored the highest points in team history, and Aguirre scored 30 points, 11 rebounds and 16 assists to win the first triple-double in team history. He averaged 112.7 points per game, fifth in the league, and averaged 16.4 turnovers per game, which was the least in the league (the number of turnovers caused by not passing the ball was not very high), but the basic lack of defense also made the team lose a lot of games, and they once had playoff hopes, but a seven-game losing streak at the end of the season left the Mavericks missing out on the playoffs.

If the Mavericks were just precipitating in the first three years, in the fourth year, the Mavericks completed their metamorphosis, all from the 1983 NBA draft. The Mavericks held the No. 11 pick, which they then used to select guard from the University of Illinois, Derek Haber.

Haber is 193 cm tall, the No. 1 position, don't look at his height, but he dares to fight, has strong breakthrough ability, has an excellent overall view, and has a very good defense, Haber's appearance has injected defensive energy into this offensive team, Haber was just a piece of jade in the first two seasons, and was carefully carved by Motta, and the first two seasons were mainly used as a substitute for Davis, Davis averaged 6.9 assists per game ranked tenth in the league, Aguirre averaged 29.5 points per game, only succumbing to Dantley's 30.6 points, ranking second in the league, and the third place was Kiki Vanderwig, who made the Mavericks grit his teeth with hatred, Blackman averaged 22.4 points per game, and the strong offensive firepower of the two made the Mavericks invincible in the regular season, Aguirre was also selected as an NBA All-Star in 1984, officially entered the ranks of star players, and finally the Mavericks won 43 games, and entered the playoffs for the first time since joining the NBAThe SuperSonics also had three outstanding scorers that year - the lead scorer was Jack Hikoma, who averaged 19.1 points, 11.1 rebounds and 4 assists per game, the second was super guard Gaith Williams, who averaged 18.7 points and 8.4 assists per game, and the third was forward Tom Chambers, who averaged 18.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.

The Mavericks were able to achieve the final victory thanks to Aguirre, who was completely blocked by Aguirre in the playoffs, averaging only 13.6 points per game. But the young Mavericks didn't go far, the second round was sent home by the powerful Lakers 4:1, in the fourth game, the Mavericks Lakers drawn, but the Mavericks' point guard Harbour made a fatal mistake, he thought the team was ahead, and kept possessing the ball and consumed all the time, and finally the Mavericks lost in overtime, this low-level mistake made Haber chagrined, and it can be regarded as paying tuition for the rookie's career, I don't want N years later, the Cavaliers' JR Smith also made the same mistake as Haber, Haber knew that two years later, It was only after facing the Lakers again in the playoffs and hitting a key shot in the final minute of the game that he completed his redemption.

Although the Mavericks fell at the feet of the powerful Lakers, anyone can see that the Mavericks with the ability to score without solving have a bright future, but the Mavericks have not slowed down the pace of reinforcement, and in the 1984 draft, the Mavericks got a No. 4 pick, which they used to select Jordan's teammate, Sam Perkins from North Carolina.

Perkins is 206 cm tall, serving in the fourth or fifth position, Perkins is most talked about is his outstanding projection ability, he likes long-distance shooting, and the range is far beyond the three-point line, in those days, Perkins's three-point shot gave every opponent a headache, but that refers to Perkins seven years later, although Perkins who first entered the league has three points, but he doesn't shoot much, he only shoots a three-pointer in two games on average in his rookie season, and he can reach the high pick of the No. 4 position, only a wide range is far from enough, Don't think that Perkins is good at shooting and think that he is a "soft egg", in fact, Perkins is fierce defensively, physically strong, and dares to fight, on December 12, 1985, the sophomore Perkins faced the Rockets and dropped 31 points and 20 rebounds, and was the first player in the history of the Mavericks to score 30+ rebounds 20, he is a very good role player, is the most perfect puzzle piece of a team, and his career spanned 17 years, and he appeared on the stage of the playoffs for 15 years, And in the Finals, she has repeatedly helped the team get through difficulties, which can be called the goddess of luck in the NBA.

In this way, the Mavericks fought their way through the league in a lineup dominated by Aguirre, Blackman, Vincent, Harbour, Davis, and Perkins. Aguirre averaged 25.7 points per game (seventh in the league) and 6 rebounds, Blackman averaged 19.7 points per game (selected as an All-Star for the first time this season), Vincent averaged 18.2 points per game, the Mavericks finished fourth in the West for the fourth year in a row, became the team with the fewest turnovers in the league for the third year in a row, with only 14.4, setting a new NBA record, and also became the team with 152 three-pointers in the league, and in the first round of the playoffs, they faced the Portland Trail Blazers, who have four kings.

The Trail Blazers have been crazy this season, recovering from the pain of losing Bill Wharton, and have amassed several capable players, including two decorated players, Michael Thompson, the top center selected by the Trail Blazers in 1978 (now the father of Warriors star Klay Thompson), who averaged 18.4 points and 7.8 rebounds per game in the regular season, and Jim Patterson, the No. 12 rookie in the first round in 1979, a guard who fans are not well known to is averaging 17.9 points per game in the regular season this season.

If Thompson and Patterson are only stars, the Trail Blazers have two Hall of Fame-caliber players, Clyde Drexler, the No. 14 first-round pick drafted last year, known as the glider, who averaged 18.5 points and eight assists per game in the regular season, and the Mavericks' old friend, the Trail Blazers traded three players and a first-round pick for Kiki Vandewig this season.

With such a lineup, there is no doubt that the Mavericks are at an absolute disadvantage, so can they create a miracle this year and beat the Trail Blazers?