In the 2003-2004 season, the Mavericks did not achieve satisfactory results, but no one was discouraged, and immediately, the Mavericks' lineup ushered in a great change, and everything was preparing for the old Nelson's bombardment dream.

First of all, it was to renew Marquis Daniels with a six-year, 38 million contract, and as soon as the playoffs ended, the Mavericks sent Antoine Jamison to the Wizards, getting the Wizards' No. 5 pick in the first round this year, Christian Leitner and guard Jerry Starkerhouse. Why trade Jamison? There is no reason, the salary cap was very tight in those days, and it was a very luxurious thing for Jamison to sit on the bench with a contract of up to $12.58 million, and Jamison was a technical stream, with average physical fitness, which was more suitable for positional warfare than bombardment, and the Wizards' conditions also made the Mavericks unable to refuse, in addition to Leitner and Stackhouse, don't forget, the Wizards also took a first-round No. 5 pick.

Leitner used to play for the Mavericks in the 2000-2001 season, but was sent to the Wizards in the middle of the season, but after three seasons, he was sent back by the Wizards, but the Mavericks did not keep the 33-year-old veteran, and got Leitner purely because he took a fancy to Leitner's last year of $6.6 million contract, and was cut before he played a game for the Mavericks in the new season, and then Leitner joined the Heat, and after playing half a season, he never appeared on the NBA court again.

Stackhouse is 198 cm tall, a shooting guard, 30 years old, Stackhouse is the first round of the No. 3 rookie in 1995, graduated from the prestigious North Carolina, just debuted and was known as Jordan's successor, has a gorgeous and powerful scoring ability, its back after the turn and retreat jump shot makes it the biggest killer, just debuted in the 76ers and Allen Iverson formed a firepower double gun, but unfortunately both need to have the ball in hand The style of play is not compatible, and then the 76ers in order to correct Iverson, sent Stackhouse to the Pistons, where he proved himself, averaging 29.8 points per game in his most ferocious season!

Later, he swapped clubs with Richard Hamilton under the mask of the Wizards and came to the Wizards, but although Stackhouse is still at his peak in age, he underwent knee surgery last season, and his season is reimbursed, and his comeback status is doubtful.

On the second day, the NBA draft was held, and the Wizards got the No. 5 pick in the first round, but this draft pick was sent to the Mavericks with this deal, and the Mavericks chose guard Devin Harris for this position.

Harris is 193 cm tall and a two-way position, he is a very fast defender. When he held the ball for 3.8 seconds, he ran through the court and broke the Guinness record, this speed, even Iverson is willing to bow down, it is precisely because of this characteristic of Harris, so he is more suitable for bombardment, rather than positional warfare, and it is also the favorite dish of old Nelson, but the shortcomings are also obvious, the three-point ability is average, the passing ability is average, and there are many mistakes"Hades", Harris was only 21 years old at the time, and he had potential to be tapped.

After the Mavericks sold Jamison for a high price, "Fathead" Walker did not stay with the team, and on August 2, 2004, the Mavericks sent Walker and Decker to the Atlanta Hawks for guard Jason Terry and forward Alan Henderson.

The 32-year-old Henderson is 206 cm tall, plays as a power forward, and has 13 points and 5 rebounds at his peak, but he was seriously injured last season and only played 6 games, and was sent to the Mavericks this year.

The 27-year-old Jason Terry is 188 cm tall, the first leader, the No. 10 rookie in the first round in 1999, and the outside player that the Hawks focus on cultivating, spent the first five years in the Hawks, and had two consecutive seasons with 19 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists, but the Hawks' dismal record during this period shows that Terry is not a cornerstone player who can take on big responsibilities, so he sent Terry to the Mavericks.

Terry is a very uninhibited player with a very uninhibited personality and style of play, he has a well-rounded skill and weird shooting options, usually, we call this type of player "demon star", he can shoot two steps away from the three-point line, and also in the fast break, using a stop-and-go mid-range jumper or a pull-up three-point shot instead of a layup. Even LeBron James, the famous good man in the league, can't help but complain to the league that Terry has too much trash talk and is too ugly, especially when he shoots a three-point in front of you, it's like you've dug Terry's grave, trash talk goes on and on, and Terry also has a signature move, that is, after scoring a goal, his arms are spread out and his wings are flying like an airplane, hence the nickname "Jet".

At the beginning of the season, in order to kill Terry's prestige, the old Nelson arranged for Terry to play the starter for the recruit Devin Harris in the first two months, and as a result, Terry not only played very well, but also used trash talk to humiliate Devin Harris was embarrassed to play the starter, and he finally became the starting guard naturally......

In addition to trades, the team also made some gains in free agency, signing big center Eric Dampier for seven years and $73 million.

Dampier is 211 cm tall, a typical black and hard inside life, his strength is very good, in the league's bench press results, second only to O'Neal and Big Ben, which gives him the upper hand when he is stuck in the inside position, but leaving the restricted area, Daniel is basically useless, last season in the Warriors, in the contract year Dampier played the best performance of his career, Averaged 12.3 points and 12.0 rebounds per game and 1.9 blocks, when Duncan and O'Neal were already at the end of their prime, but Yao Ming, Stoudemire, Garnett and other lethal interior lines came out again, and the introduction of Dampier was the team's last guarantee on the offensive end of the position, and it was also to share the defensive pressure on Nowitzki, so that the latter could devote more experience to the offense.

The team has gone on a rampage to bring in players who fit the team, but in fact, the Mavericks have suffered a major setback this season when Stephen Nash left, and left as a free agent, and the team didn't get anything in return.

This season's Nash, became a restricted free agent, originally Kuban was going to keep Nash, because other teams offered contracts, the Mavericks can match, according to Kuban's estimates, Nash's market price is about 800-10 million, so on the first day the free market door opened, Kuban proposed two contracts to Nash's team for Nash to choose from, one is 4 years with a total value of $40 million, and the other is 5 years, with a total value of $45 million with a final year of partial security, Because Nash is 29 years old this season, and he will be 34 years old in five years, Kuban has to consider the risk of age, and the initial idea is that he can get full protection by playing 60 games in the last year and playing an average of 20 minutes per game, in fact, for people like Nash who do not rely on physical fitness to play, as long as they are healthy, this data is not difficult to achieve, in all fairness, for Nash at that time, this was a decent contract, and Nash's team did not refuse, according to convention, They had to talk to Nash before they signed, and Kuban didn't take it to heart because he thought it was a sure thing.

Who would have thought that in the evening, Nelson Sr. called and said that Nash received a 5-year, $65 million contract from the Suns, and what shocked Kuban even more was that the Suns sent a strong recruitment team in order to get Nash, including team general manager Brian Cronquillo, new owner Robert Saffer, head coach Mike D'Antoni, former NBA player Steve Kerr and the team's star player Amare Stoudemire, it can be said that the Suns from top to bottom, from left to right, have a head and a face, of course, And to get a big contract that seemed tempting at the time.

Kuban immediately held a meeting of the team's top management for Nash, and evaluated Nash in an all-round way, based on Nash's injury, the style of play on the court, age, etc., the team decided to give up matching Nash, just like that, Dallas's son of the wind left Phoenix, and everyone knows what happened later, Nash's peak stayed in Phoenix, and then six All-Stars, 5 times took away the assist king, and what is even more painful for Kuban is that in the new season, Nash also won the Most Valuable Player in the regular season, and he even won these honors, which constituted Nash's induction into the Hall of Fame, and his five-year contract worth $65 million became a well-known cheap contract in the NBA.

And Kuban, who has never been convinced, admitted many years later that letting go of Nash was the biggest mistake he made in his life, not only as simple as letting go of Nash, but more importantly, the team that Nash joined was still his own divisional opponent, and it was very likely to meet in the playoffs.

Devin Harris, Josh Howard, Michael Finley, Dirk Nowitzki and Eric Dampier formed the team's starting lineup for the season, and the bench was Terry, Jerry Starkhouse, Marquis-Daniels, Alan Henderson, Shaun Bradley and other good players, in the first game of the new season, the Mavericks defeated the bitter Kings in last season's playoffs 107-98 at home, which is considered to have kicked off the journey of the Mavericks this season, and the Mavericks won 8 of the first ten games, Although Nash left Phoenix, the strength of the team is still not to be underestimated.

There's not much to say about this season, the team is still following the line arranged by the elder Nelson, and it is worth mentioning that Nowitzki, thanks to Dampier on the defensive end, Nowitzki has been able to put more energy into the offensive end. Averaged 26.1 points per game to set a career high, and what is even more worth mentioning is that on December 2, 2004, the Mavericks defeated the Rockets in an overtime, Nowitzki and Rockets star McGrady teamed up to contribute a wonderful game of fairy fighting, and finally Maddy scored 48 points, 9 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 steals, 3 blocks and 2 turnovers on 19 of 36, and Nowitzki was even more outstanding, shooting 15-of-32 and scoring a career-high 53 points! In addition, he also had 16 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals, 4 blocks and 1 turnover.

Stackhouse looks to be recovering well after suffering a major injury last season, and has become a sharp knife on the bench with the Mavericks this season. averaged 14.9 points per game, the team's rookie Harris performance was disappointing, in addition to barely playing the starter in order to suppress Terry at the beginning of the new season, Harris's rookie season was extremely average, averaging only 15 minutes per game and scoring 5.7 points, while Terry found a sense of home in the Mavericks' brawl tactics, although there were not many shooting opportunities in the Mavericks Terry, who averaged only 12.4 points per game, but the shooting rate was as high as 50.1%, and the three-point shooting rate was as high as 42.0%, Terry proved to be an efficient player, but the team's other veteran was much more bleak in comparison: Finley, the 31-year-old, who has been hit by a number of minor injuries this season, playing just 64 games, averaging just 15.0 points per game and shooting 42.7 percent from the field.

The management of the team has also changed dramatically this season, after 64 games in the season, the team's coach Nelson Sr. suddenly called all the players for a meeting, and he was no longer the coach of the team, these old Nelson have been looking for their successor, and last season, they found it, that person is the retired general Avery Johnson, Johnson came to the Mavericks last season, became the assistant coach of the Mavericks, and has been growing under the guidance of Nelson Sr. When the old Nelson has other things to deal with, it is Johnson who is in charge of the old Nelson, although everyone knows that it is a matter of time before Johnson takes over as the coach of the team, but when this moment comes, I am still a little overwhelmed, why it was announced after 64 games, I guess it may be that the old Nelson is just 64 years old, but this is just a good wish, in fact, the relationship between the old Nelson and Kuban in the early years was very delicate, a series of problems, Renewing Nash's contract, for Nowitzki's use and salary, have become inevitable things for the two of them, which is not discussed here, interested in Baidu.

After a season and a half off, Nelson Sr. returned to the 2006-2007 season and led the Golden State Warriors to complete the Black Eight Miracle, and four seasons later, Nelson Sr. coached for 31 years, won 1,335 wins and 1,063 losses, and was the head coach with the most wins in NBA history (later broken by Popovich), although Nelson Sr. led the team to play 18 playoffs, did not win a championship, and did not even enter the Finals, But it does not hinder the greatness of the old Nelson, he is known as a mad scientist, many tactics injected into the "point forward", "three-point center", "shark cutting tactics", "bombardment tactics" and a series of tactics that lead the NBA reform are first proposed by the old Nelson, and the old Nelson is kind, tolerant and has maintained a good relationship with many players, such as Steve Nash when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018, his introducer was the old Nelson.

"Playing basketball with the purpose of throwing the ball into the basket is a hooligan" - this sentence is the truest portrayal of old Nelson.

Avery Johnson is not a general, he was immersed in Popovich's big tent for five years as a player, and after retiring from football, he was guided by Nelson Sr., who led the Mavericks to 16 wins in the last 18 games, and finally the Mavericks finished 58-24 and finished fourth in the West.

This season's Mavericks still do not change their true colors, ranking third in the league with an average of 102.5 points per game, the second is the King, and the first is the Phoenix Suns who have made Kupan extremely heartbroken this season, Phoenix City has played an average of 110.4 points per game under Nash's arrangement, and Nash himself, with an average of 15.5 points and 11.5 assists per game, was crowned the regular season assist king and MVP, Kupan heartache X2. Without Nash, the Mavericks are averaging only 19.6 assists per game, ranking fifth from the bottom in the league, while the Suns are averaging 23.5 assists per game, ranking third in the league, and Kupan is heartbroken X3.

And the Mavericks' opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the Houston Rockets that make all Chinese fans feel heartache, and the heartache of Chinese fans is Xunlimited, and that year, what happened that made the Mavericks reverse the Rockets to advance after losing two games in a row?