Actually, that's the way I tell if people actually read Moneyball or not when they talk about it. The book massively emphasizes how it's about finding untapped markets or strategies and re-evaluating conventional wisdom to gain advantages without needing financial advantage. Even a whole section about how certain situations encourage bunting iirc, which isn't player acquisition. But all most people talk about is statistical evaluation of players as being "Moneyball" strategy.
The Spurs have basically been the "moneyball" franchise of the NBA for the last twenty years. Taking and stashing Euros, managing the cap, picking through players to maximize one or two things from them, get flexible in terms of what pace you can play your game at, cut your starters minutes during the season, play the team into a rotation over the course of the season from all the players you have, they were the first team to try and change peoples jumpers too. Even though it just happened everyone kinda seems to forget the wind got taken out of the Heat's "POSITIONLESS REVOLUTION" sails because the Spurs could just play Boris Diaw at power forward without overhauling their rotation.
One of my favorites though was Don Nelson suddenly inserting Walt Williams as his center against, I think the Kings, and the entire team borderline froze like wtf do we do. He's a three point shooting small forward...but...yet...he's at center? Guarding our center? I don't...
