Mark Stein is starting to believe

http://espn.go.com/nba/powerrankings

Mark Stein, historically been a Blazer Naysayer, is giving us some love.

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Just remember Blazers, you aren't getting this attention coasting. Your desire, hunger and hard work is turning heads. Remember!

 

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9997153&ex_cid=espnapi_public

On the video, Mark Stein talks a lot about Portland!

 

Isn't Mark Stein one of the guys that are fools because he doesn't like Portland?

I get so confused on who we should and should not take seriously

 

No Mark Stein is an East Coast Homer that gives way too much love to mediocre Eastern Conference teams. Definitely overlooks Western Teams, unless you are the Lakers.

 

He was practically tripping over himself to ask Dame about LMA wanting out last night on ESPN.

 

how is he an east coast homer? And in what way has he historically been a Blazers hater?

 

I guess you don't follow him much?

 

I tend to read his stuff when I can. I don't see any sort of huge east coast bias out of him. And we've not been a good team lately, what sort of love is he supposed to show to us?

 

He lives in Dallas.

 

He's not and he hasn't.

 

Well that IS close to the east coast of Texas right?

 

And? What does that have to do with his favoritism with Eastern Conference teams? You guys keep forgetting who is paying his checks. The ESPN media has and always favors the Eastern Conference.

 

Oh Christ brother… Just use the damn search feature and you will get all the information you need. Search 2009, when we were on a tear!

http://espn.go.com/nba/powerrankings?year=2010&week=-1

 

Stein would talk about the reason he put comments in his Power Rankings is because it's one of the most viewed paged on ESPN/NBA, and he felt his should add some value with a comment that added something interesting. It always use to rub me the wrong way when he would make a comment on the Blazers' ranking that referred to the Mavs more than it did to the Blazers.

 

He predicted us to be the 8th best team in the league that year, and we finished as the 9th best team. He thought Dallas and Denver deserved to be ranked higher. They both finished ahead of us. 5 of his top 8 were western conference teams. How is he hating? Come on.

 

That was the year we were the 4th best team. You are thinking of his 2008-09 prediction.

 

I clicked on the link you provided. It was for September of 2009. For the 09-10 season.

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/2010_games.html

 

uh huh. We were the 9th best team with that link also.