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Originally Posted by kq76
Can any team in the NBA really count as a moneyball team though?
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To a certain degree you can.
There always have been and always will be market inefficiencies.
Until the early 2010s, it took the league 30 years to realize 'this 3 point shot is worth 50% more than a 2 point shot, lets shoot more of them and get players who are good at shooting them'
But every team very quickly caught onto that.
As someone else mentioned, Daryl Morey kind of took it to the extreme in that every shot should be at the rim or from the 3 point line.
I think a bit of what got lost is that the mid range shot was not necessarily seen as a bad shot at all times. It was the contested mid range shot that was frowned upon.
I think you can use 'moneyball' concepts in the NBA.
But almost every team now has very smart people in the front office looking for the next thing.
So you can only really be ahead a season or even half a season before they will catch up to you.