There are a few coaches who are trying he 'team' concept. Eg, George Karl at Denver and Doug Collins at 76ers. Both have worked OK in this shortened, injury ridden season.

However the reality is that the NBA rules are stacked in favour of the 'superstar' teams. Since there is no zone allowed your offence is pretty much taken care of if you have the best offensive player in the game, ala Kobe or Lebron. Just give them the ball and clear out.

Now try to put 3 superstars on the same team.. Booyaa

No way, definitely not in Miami's case. Players like Lebron and D-Wade can get to the hoop so easily that they simply dont need more slashers/creaters. Between Lebron and Wade, theres more than enough talent there to create shots, what a team like that really needs is 3-point shooters to stretch the floor so teams dont collapse in the paint so hard.

You really do need balance in every team and you can already see a lack of balance in Miami Since the teams been together. 2 creaters(as good as the big 2) is kind of more than enough, i think defenders/scrappers and shooters, and a legit post player is whats needed in a team like Miami. Sometimes, most times as you saw in the series against Pacers, LBJ and Wades brilliance can carry them but when they play a great/smart team such as Spurs, or Boston or evn Bulls, thats where their lack of balance and depth gets exploited. Miami are my team but i wish they were more balanced like Spurs, OKC, Bulls, Boston, even LAC.

the moneyball concept only works for team sports that are also individual sports. Baseball obviously is an individual sport within a team sport. A batters stats aren't affected by team mates.

Basketball is the opposite. Someones stats are not always a true reflection of how good they are. Mo williams playing with lebron in cleveland was an allstar. Mo williams without lebron is a back up PG.

The 'moneyball' philosophy can't really work in basketball like it works in baseball. As already mentioned, to 'team' orientated.

The owners of the Boston Red Sox, FSG have purchased Liverpool in the English Premier League and tried to bring in the moneyball principle into football. Didn't work and it won't, once again individual statistics don't have a huge say in the outcome of a game of football. Too team orientated, like basketball.

The 'buy young and cheap and sell for a profit down the track' method isn't rocket science, been around for years.

I am thinking more in terms of moneyball providing me with the idea that you can have a different way of building a winner.

The teams that build a roster around a superstar using role playing shooter defenders may not actually be as good as building a team around the concept that all players can create shots.

Motion based offences that can be tough to design defensive schemes against because of the very nature of the ball movement.

Why do people just assume that having three point shooters spreads the floor? I havn't seen a lot of evidence of this. And in the playoffs defenders close out much harder so i just don't buy into it.

Surround Lebron with a team of guys who will each play 20 frenetic minutes of high power running and penetrating offence where Lebron is a beneficiary not always the catalyst.

A grizzly team about 8 years ago had some success under Hubie Brown, and we are seeing the 76ers and pacers over achieving this year...

The superstar team model has to be rebuilt.

While Miami isn't balanced, they're roster makeup on the perimeter is fine, but it wouldn't hurt to pick up someone else who can create for themselves, just to add an extra dimension to the team, could you imagine a J.R Smith coming off the bench for Miami? after all, he was busted in Miami the other day.

Pacers might of beaten miami if they had a superstar.

Like anon said, the rockets use a "moneyball" type model to build their side. They trade/draft underapprieciated players and keep them while they are cheap. They tend to find a lot of 2nd/3rd tier gems but nothing resembling an elite level player.

I'd say they have had mixed results and seem to fall short each year by the bearest of margins. I think the moneyball approach can be applied to basketball, but only after you have your 1 or 2 elite level talents in place, and for most teams, that has to be done through the draft.

That was supposed to be Yao....