http://dberri.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/artest-the-savior/ Wages of Wins author Dave Berri gives his thoughts on the Artest trade for the Rockets. He is not enthusiastic about it, and I think it mostly stems from doubt on how well Artest would play PF. He feels that the Rockets are deep at SF already with T-Mac and Battier (an ignorant perspective, in my view), and Artest doesn't rebound well enough to be a positive contributor at PF. If you don't know about him, he is a numbers guy, but he bases his analysis largely on what he calls "Win Score". And for a little more discussion from other stats folks regarding this trade, you can see this thread at the APBRMetrics forum. A few posters offer estimates for regular season wins, in the 53-59 range.
