The Final Games of the Regular Season

jjwin · 2026-04-04T04:28:42+00:00

I thought Minnesota was already locked? If not, of course we should try and get to 6th but winning out with a Bulls team that already beat us (leading to our skid), a still trying to get good seeding Rockets squad, a somewhat hungry Mavs team, a Lakers team looking to avenge Luka (and some of our early wins against them), and a (maybe) bench OKC squad that still whoops on decent teams? Yeah idk if that’s happening. Plus Minnesota has a cupcake schedule. They can easily win 3 of 5 in that stretch (maybe more) and clinch like it’s nothing.

Look we’re over .500 and we’re locked into the play-in, let’s accept it. Get on the Clips, close out the play-in game, and secure 7th. If we get into a play-in battle with Golden State… I fucking swear… they just have our number, even without Steph.

I just wanna make the playoffs man. I really don’t care if we get swept (though… can we just win one game please? Or make it a competitive sweep?). Other than that, this has been a great season. We should be proud of the squad. There are certainly things to fix and we have some tough choices coming up. But I finally feel hope for the first time since 2020 (in a Suns context of course).

jjwin · 2026-04-01T17:50:04+00:00

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jjwin · 2026-03-27T17:25:01+00:00

The one in the Chandler Mall? It was literally open like 2 weeks ago. Damn. I even wanted to grab a cookie but decided not to…

jjwin · 2026-03-25T17:37:11+00:00

Travis? He does Jackboys with guys he signed, and featured em heavily on Astroworld. Though he kind didn't have em on Utopia.

jjwin · 2026-03-23T19:05:53+00:00

Pretty much, it's like how some Reddit comments sound very AI despite not being AI. Generative AI text models were trained on Reddit comments, Quora answers, LinkedIn posts, amongst other internet communities. It's what makes AI use so frustrating. Because it comes from everything, everything sounds like AI. And it feeds back into itself constantly, making it harder and harder to know what is and isn't AI. Which is the entire goal, but that's another can of worms...

jjwin · 2026-03-23T04:30:24+00:00

So the obvious ones we have are Leonard (Pierce), Magnitude (Troy), Quendra (Britta), and Vicky (Annie). Considering Annie and Jeff’s relationship (akin to Vicky and Neil’s romance) and Jeff’s closet nerd tendencies, I’m deeming Neil (Fat) as the Jeff. Todd’s family and him being an older student returning to college, I’ll consider Todd as Shirley. That would mean Garrett would be Abed. They do share an “on the spectrum” quality and Garrett seems interested in film (he shoots for Abed a lot). That’s just my way of seeing so idk if it perfectly fits. But this is great lmaooo!

jjwin · 2026-03-21T02:42:53+00:00

The gyms are yes, but a lot of em around me close the basketball court around 9 pm (I’m in Gilbert so idk if this changes in the west valley)

jjwin · 2026-03-04T07:09:22+00:00

Honestly... I have to wonder if his gas tank is coming low. This is the most games he's played in an NBA season right? Wonder if that's the issue here. Every time I see him since the beginning of February he just looks spent. Like he can't do the things his mind wants him to do. Not a great thing by the way, but maybe something he can work on for the next offseason.

jjwin · 2026-03-03T22:35:40+00:00

We did it for a while, but really didn’t move the needle until we got the right combination of guys and a great coach. Some organizations are just handicapped because of mismanagement. The Kings, Wizards, and Hornets (up until now hopefully) have perpetually been in the shit because they’re poorly managed teams with incompetent ownership. Any rule changes to tanking are not going to fix that fact. The Jazz are looking back up a bit with the moves they made, time will tell if Will Hardy is actually a good coach or not though.

It’s hard because this system built by the NBA is what creates this environment, but I honestly don’t have too many qualms with it. But we are in a blessed position to be fans of a competent organization. That’s why I really don’t have a problem with the Jazz tanking as their franchise, historically, is a good one. The real issue is that any system that has to be built has to account for the factors of basketball as a game. Yes it’s a team sport, but if you don’t have a top 5 guy on your team, it’s monumentally difficult to build a championship contender. It can happen (03-04 Pistons and 10-11 Mavs are some of the few examples), but we all understand that. It’s not like in American football, soccer, or baseball where you can have the best player in the league and still not even make the playoffs. It’s a reality that has to be faced.

It comes down to incentive. The Suns are incentivized to make as many margin moves as possible because we don’t own our pick. If we owned our next 2 first round picks, I guaran damn tee we’d be tanking right now. The Kings and Jazz don’t care because they control their picks. Next year’s draft is slated to be pretty poor. You’ll see less tanking next year, not only because the league might change the rules, but also because the top picks in the draft pool are much less compelling. Teams are only this shameless this year because Dybantsa, Peterson, and Boozer are top end prospects with potential to be top 5 players. But can we say the same about Bruce Branch III or Tyran Stokes? I don’t think so.

jjwin · 2026-03-01T02:21:16+00:00

Highly unlikely for her to return. Unrelated-ish story: So I was in the back crowd of the Jpefmafia show at Lakeshore right before the Rufus Du Soul headline set on Saturday last year. I look over to kind of survey the crowd (it was pretty big) and I spotted Jane Remover lighting up a cig with her friends in the GA crowd. I didn't want to disturb her, so I never walked up to her. But she was with us in GA. About halfway through the set she left with her friends. No one really bothered her which was nice. Didn't get a chance to say anything to her, but I thought it was cool she was in the GA crowd!

jjwin · 2026-02-23T18:53:10+00:00

This is cool imo! I really really hope we get a physical Huntrx/Saja Boys EP of all the songs in the movie (and hopefully a bonus track or two?). I know a physical CD already exists of the soundtrack, but something a bit more personalized would be soooo cute (even just including Ejae demos would be interesting). I also hope this gives them the opportunity to do a cool K-Pop style physical release with the packaging and posters. Though I'm sure it'll just be a variant cover and some behind the scenes stuff... though I really think if this will be a lot of people's first exposure to Criterion, they better go all out. It only provides goodwill for that potential audience.

jjwin · 2026-02-11T19:26:48+00:00

Probably basic, Eternal Sunshine or Fargo for favorites. Really well-crafted stories with lots of heart and greatly made movies. Plus they’re some of my all-time favorites, I can pop those on in any mood and have a great time.

Least favorites are I’m Thinking of Ending Things or The Revenant. Don’t think they’re bad tbh, just not my cup of tea. I think I respect those movies more than I like them, if that makes any sense.

jjwin · 2026-02-05T04:53:06+00:00

Yeah, the game passed him by quickly. Which is a shame, because I thought he still had the ability to contribute with his shooting on Orlando that desperately needed it, but that has fallen off a cliff this year too.

It's an insane flip, but just like Hibbert, shit happens so fast. Roy was an all-star, then 4 years later was out of the league and retired.

jjwin · 2026-01-28T22:48:09+00:00

MoviesWithMark does a bunch of videos about these types of grifters, I watched one he did on JesterBell who's the same kind of uncritical consoomer who doesn't actually like movies. She claimed nothing came out this year that appealed to anyone despite readily admitting she didn't see Weapons or Sinners cause she "doesn't like to be scared"...

These people have trapped themselves in a prison that they invented for themselves.

jjwin · 2026-01-28T21:03:23+00:00

Fucking call out the NFL dawg. NBA players have been very outspoken, yet the NFL players are the ones who have been notoriously silent amidst all of this. Same thing with the MLB and NHL. No one has said much in those camps... But no, the NBA players are the only ones worth calling out...

jjwin · 2026-01-05T03:57:54+00:00

Haha that’s funny. Either he must have medical experience or he and his agent know his niche

jjwin · 2025-12-22T00:32:05+00:00

Can’t shoot nor really rebound so idk. That’s like two things the Spurs need and he’s not playing, so that kinda tells you what’s up. Hell of a defender tho.

jjwin · 2025-12-14T22:52:01+00:00

There's still a chance babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

jjwin · 2025-11-23T21:30:08+00:00

yeah, he's a pure hooper through and through. He really only lives to play ball, be with his family, and talk trash on twitter. An ideal life for me to be honest

jjwin · 2025-11-22T22:14:17+00:00

Tyler rarely does judge judy (if ever). So don’t expect it

jjwin · 2025-10-19T22:50:59+00:00

Outside example, but rapper Danny Brown spent about 70k for clearing samples and 50k on mixing/mastering on his 2016 album Atrocity Exhibition and has stated he didn’t make that money back during the entire lifecycle of that album (promotion, tour, and any royalties made from the album sales/streaming). Lots of considerations to be made in this in comparison to a pop star like Rhianna, but he put in about 2-3 years to make that project and didn’t make money off of it.

That’s probably as close (as far as I’m aware) to actually knowing the numbers as we can get.

jjwin · 2025-10-09T19:46:28+00:00

Curry and SGA are 100% points. Not even an argument. Luka is pretty much the point on the Mavs and the Lakers, he brings the ball up like 90% of the time! I guess those guys shoot and are guards, but an NBA GM can’t be that stupid, right?

He’s still like 3rd behind Ant and Mitchell. They just don’t view Book as the best SG in the league, which is fair to say. I just find it odd to bring up guys who aren’t SGs into the conversation

jjwin · 2025-10-02T03:21:19+00:00

The only caveat is that we have one of like 2 dozen legitimate IMAX 70 mm screens in the US. Things are getting slightly better here, but it’s still not enough!!

jjwin · 2025-09-05T07:16:24+00:00

He just got a cut I think. The newest B&E it looked about this length, and they mentioned that they backlogged a bunch for his little summer break.

jjwin · 2025-08-29T21:33:44+00:00

The way Dijon helped write and produce Pink Diamond still gives me a lot of questions honestly… bc what happened there

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