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Lakers fans response to power rankings: ESPN loves the rockets?

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  1. SunsRocketsfan

    SunsRocketsfan Member

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    Wow i never thought i would hear people complain that ESPN loves the rockets and the rockets are their favorite team?

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    It's one of the readers' favorites and we do it every week: Trot out five (or so) responses to the latest edition of my NBA Power Rankings to make sure you have your say.

    Straight from the rankings mailbag:

    Chris (Porterville, Calif.): What's your deal with the Rockets? The Lakers have beaten them on the road and at home. I know the Lakers are without Lamar Odom and haven't played as well lately. But they have a better record than Houston and Yao is out for a while. Obviously your favorite team is Houston and, as usual, you love to hate the Lakers.

    Mike (Irvine, Calif.): There has to be something you see that everyone else in America does not. How do you rank a team (Rockets) with a worse record than the Lakers -- and with two losses to the Lakers -- higher than the Lakers? Please explain.

    Karl (Los Angeles): I don't know what you're smoking, but how could you put the Rockets ahead of the Lakers? I know you get a kick out of tweaking the collective noses of Laker fans, but come on.

    Committee's counter: We'd first like to know where you three and several other Laker fans who wrote in get this idea that the committee is out to get you. Based on what?

    Didn't the Lakers incur a couple of shaky losses last week? Didn't they, with Lamar Odom already out, lose another frontcourt starter indefinitely when Kwame Brown went down? Didn't the Rockets see Tracy McGrady respond to Yao Ming's injury by returning to the lineup and look as healthy as he's looked for some time?

    We've said this a zillion times, but you can't focus solely on head-to-head results, especially this early in the season when teams haven't even played half of their games yet. L.A. has two nice wins over Houston, true. But Houston won by 30 points in Charlotte, where the Lakers lost last Friday in three overtimes. Are we supposed to ignore the Rockets' convincing edge there because of two head-to-head games?

    EVERYTHING factors in, like Houston's harder schedule to date compared to L.A.'s, which gives them a bit of a boost even without Yao.

    If you still need convincing, remember that this is the same committee that picked the Lakers to make the playoffs last season when few national pundits did. It's the same committee that consistently kept the Shaq-and-Kobe Lakers in the upper reaches of the rankings even when their week-to-week results could have been graded more harshly. Whose noses were we trying to tweak then?

    Can we please stop with the conspiracy stuff?
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    http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dailydime-070106-07

    The world must be coming to an end or something..
    anyways GREAT WIN TONIGHT and TMAC is just awesome!!
     
    #1 SunsRocketsfan, Jan 6, 2007
  2. rocket3forlife2

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    Well when we beat the waizards twice and they where still ranked ahead of us at one time..so I guess thats natural for them to feel robbed.
     
    #2 rocket3forlife2, Jan 6, 2007
  3. brantonli24

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    When you have Agent 0 on your team, it's hard not to be good.
     
    #3 brantonli24, Jan 6, 2007
  4. baller4life315

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    Yeah, ESPN is pretty notorious for never giving the Lakers any props. :rolleyes:
     
    #4 baller4life315, Jan 6, 2007
  5. Mr. Clutch

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    Fans always think ESPN hates their team.
     
    #5 Mr. Clutch, Jan 6, 2007
  6. kingkow

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    The NBA.com fab 5 is ridiculously insane...

    i dont know what that means but it just sucks..all based on emotions
     
    #6 kingkow, Jan 6, 2007
  7. Collector

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    Hey, according to what thos lakers say,

    Rockets should be put in the top of the ranking,

    Just beacuse with the healty roster, we can win Mav by more than 30,
     
    #7 Collector, Jan 6, 2007
  8. RocksMillenium

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    Wow Laker are are whiny.
     
    #8 RocksMillenium, Jan 6, 2007
  9. Surfguy

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    Wow, the Lakers really have some stupid fans out there.
     
    #9 Surfguy, Jan 6, 2007
  10. kwik_e_mart

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    What a good representation on the intelligence of many, if not most, Laker fans out there
     
    #10 kwik_e_mart, Jan 6, 2007
  11. kjames44

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    They are always whining in LaLa land...guess it didn't matter that the lakers have played a ton of home games and few on the road thus far...rankings have little meaning at the end of the day.
     
    #11 kjames44, Jan 6, 2007
  12. MadMax

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    i'll tell you right now...

    they absolutely, positively hate the astros. at least the crew on baseball tonight. even my friends from other parts of the country who aren't astros fans laugh about that.
     
    #12 MadMax, Jan 6, 2007
  13. ucansee2020

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    Sure, all they want to talk about during the baseball season are Yankees and RedSox.
     
    #13 ucansee2020, Jan 6, 2007
  14. Omer

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    The NBA hates T-Mac, they didn't even put him on the front page for dropping 44 pts last night.

    Even though they did have a "T-Mac's Big Night" highlight clip, but still.
     
    #14 Omer, Jan 6, 2007
  15. Patience

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    Well, if all fans think ESPN is being unfair to their respective teams, it probably means they are doing a good job.

    That said, Tim Legler is an idiot.
     
    #15 Patience, Jan 6, 2007
  16. stangend77

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    wahhhhh.....boy the people in la are wussy cry baby weiners........who really cares what the power rankings say THEY ARE SOMEONES OPINION. (the right opinion right now might it add) :D
     
    #16 stangend77, Jan 6, 2007
  17. Valio!

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    Lakers are chumps... here is why the Rockets deserve a higher ranking - road/home games.

    Both the Lakers and Rockets are about .500 on the road. Both teams win a lot at home. Lakers have played most of their games at home this year (19 at home vs. 14 on the road). Rockets have nearly the opposite ratio (15 at home vs. 18 on the road). The only thing keeping the Lakers ahead of the Rockets is home cooking. We'll seem them slip below us as this ratio evens out.
     
    #17 Valio!, Jan 6, 2007
  18. Rocketman95

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    Sounds almost exactly like this forum anytime we see a team ranked ahead of us that we feel shouldn't be.
     
    #18 Rocketman95, Jan 6, 2007
  19. dskillz

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    Funny thing is you see the same stuff written in the GARM referring to the Rockets. I guess we have some stupid fans too.
     
    #19 dskillz, Jan 6, 2007
  20. The_Yoyo

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    guess? we sure do have some stupid fans, every team does
     
    #20 The_Yoyo, Jan 6, 2007
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