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IMO Stein does base his "committee of one"s opinion on recent results and play once we get past the first few weeks of the season, but until then he has to use last year as a baseline. Of course he has Miami high because of Shaq, and he is giving Utah too much credit because they demolished the Lakers and Nuggets, the latter of which was a preseason fave of his. He has always had a bias in his rankings against Dallas IMO because he used to write for the DMN. To eliminate any perceived bias of his from others, he feels he has to take a hard line most of the time against us.
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Question is how do we explain his Laker bias of the past few years then? Didn't Stein used to write for the LA Times as well?
Regardless, I think he needed to either bump the Mavs higher or drop the Kings lower...either he isn't giving credit for the Sacto win (a tougher opponent than anyone Utah has faced?), or he's giving too much love to the Nuggets still (which seems ridiculous).