"hoped at to lose"

[Laurence Horn]

Phil ("The Zen Master") Jackson, the legendary Los Angeles Lakers'
coach who has won 6 championships with the Chicago Bulls and 5 with
the Lakers and is a best-selling author (_Sacred Hoops: Spiritual
Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior_ and other work), explaining tonight
why the Miami Heat, for whom there were great expectations this year
with some expecting them to challenge the all-time record of the
Bulls or the current supremacy of the Lakers, have instead struggled
this year:

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One of the reasons why the Bulls were very successful and the Lakers
also is they engendered good feelings.  From what I've heard, this
team (Miami Heat) feels like they've been looked at to lose, or
they've been hoped at to lose.  If that's the case, it's a burden to
carry.
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LH

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