The NBA has another trovee we it's Luca and Yokech and final minute and Joey Chesna in Cleveland run it back starts now Welcome and happy Wednesday morning. This is run it back. Ah shams. I see did not get the Wednesday all-black message That's okay. We'll get back on that. How are you doing? You didn't send me the email Michelle. I know I am slacking so hard you guys by the way that that is stadium insider Shamsherani, of course Chandler Parsons Eddie G on the end Eddie and I are almost very alike today But guys no good news on the parlay, but we'll get to that at the end of the show Just save the worst for last but we do want to start with things in Cleveland last night Of course the Los Angeles Lakers and the return again of LeBron James, but he got a nice welcome. Here it is Such an emotional roller coaster over the last decade, isn't it? But the Cavs did beat this Lakers squad 1 16 1 2 Donovan Mitchell. My goodness 43.6 assists 5 boards Chandler Let's start with him. He is a top what player in this league Yeah, we he's a top 15 player in this league. I know we discussed this DeMar DeRozan who's great, but this guy here He's an all NBA player right now if the season were to end he can do it all he's become even more of a star From leaving Utah and with him and Garland these young bigs They have such a great balance team. They have shooting. They have guards. They have bigs. They have wings And he is just the heart of this team and watching him last night the guys.  He's flying around. He's Duncan. His finishing is so creative the way he uses his body and hangs To me, he's you know second team third team all NBA no question right now, which you know puts him borderline top 10 But easily top 15 in my opinion Okay. Yeah, and what you got to remember about Mitch is he averaged 28 points a game in the playoffs over his career He started his career with a what a deep run in the playoffs. He's used to that He wants that that's kind of why he immediately wanted to get out of Utah even though he didn't formally ask As soon as they were breaking it down. He was ready to go top 15. I mean, it sounds about right He's playing incredible this year. He's completely transformed that team from a happy go lucky They made the play-in. They were technically the seven seed. This is fun team, too Yo, could they win a couple playoff rounds if things break, right? Could we see them in June a lot of that lies on his back? I'd like to see them add a little size on the wing before it's all said and done But don't have a Mitchell's good enough to carry a playoff offense and there's only a handful of players You can say that about in the league Yeah, I mean to me the thing that really stands out is just the way that him and Darius Garland are already playing off each Other when I spent time around the cows early this year and I spoke to people on their organization It was these guys are both really unselfish. They both want to win and that's sometimes it can be lip service But the way that they play Darius Garland can space the floor down a Mitchell can play off the ball You I definitely had some questions about the fit initially But you could already tell now that these two guys can't play with each other and we'll just see how far they go I mean, that's the big question, right Chandler. Do you consider them to be the best back court in the NBA? I Do and I think it helped I think it helped both of them having the other one out to where they can get comfortable They can kind of run the offense. They both can play point guard. They both can play off the ball Like I said, they both can distribute. They both play pick and roll. There's not much that these two guys can't do I'd like them and they got to get a little bit better defensively, but yeah, I think they're the best back court I think they're explosive. They're fun to watch. I mean outside the box and the Celtics The calves are right there and I don't think they can beat those guys in a series yet But man, it would be fun and it's gonna go deep in a series with these guys because they're young They're explosive. They're long and and they got these two guards that are unbelievable Yeah, I struggled to put any back court above a Stephen Curry back court I struggled a little bit wondering about what the Bucks back court is at full health with Drew and Chris Middleton, but they're right there, you know They're when you look at the totality of each of those and whoever else you may throw in the bunch They're right there. You worry a little bit about their size on defense but the calves are also built to compensate for that with their big back line and The way they swarm on defense in that way as well they understood that one putting this team together and I want to see it in a playoff setting, but I think Donovan Mitchell is also a little underrated on that in He's got really long arms. He's strong guy. I think he can Under the right settings. So yeah, I mean, I'm fine with them being the best back court I might pick the Bucks ahead of them, but they look amazing right now I mean, look, it's fun that we're even here talking about this It just makes the league that much better and the big story going into last night Of course was the Lakers not just LeBron returning to Cleveland But the AD that we've all been watching and that basketball fans have been waiting for and Unfortunately, we only got about eight minutes of that. I left the game flu lights in some shams You tweeted it out and of course the world went nuts because this is the scene. We're very familiar with AD leaving the court going to the back. So And we saw what happened Chandler Without AD this Lakers team is what? Not very good. I mean, I don't think they're very good still with AD. He's been really playing well, obviously I think they're dangerous in a playoff series if they happen to get there with AD without them They have zero percent chance and I even Thomas Bryant played solid off the bench of them And I just saw a tweet from Skip Bayless said like tags LeBron and AD it says, do you realize that Michael Jordan was played nine 82 games and it's just like the national TV game and then he goes out with flu symptoms I'm assuming he didn't feel good before the game or I don't know what the deal was but this is just kind of Yeah, this is stuff that you got just kind of learned to live with with having Anthony Davis on your team Even when he's dominating right now and playing great he's gonna miss time and You know, they had the lead still in the fourth quarter here So like like the game wasn't out of hand But yeah, this team is nowhere near the same without this guy and I still don't think they're very good with him I mean for AD Yeah, on a back-to-back. I don't I don't know if he plays tonight I mean when you're dealing with a one-on-one fever, you only play eight minutes in one game on a back-to-back on the road in, Toronto Obviously definitely puts his his status in question But it definitely was interesting just seeing the reaction that came out when he only played eight minutes and then you know Twitter just goes crazy about the fact that you know People some people have them on on on their fantasy team or whatever the case may be but I think for for the Lakers a lot of their surge Going eight and twos of course been about AD. So if you don't have him That's basically your best player one of the best players in the league being out of your lineup. They're not the same team It's not not by a long shot No, not even close. Look, I guess the silver lining is he had a fever during the day the 101 He tried maybe that is the silver lining is that he tried an old eight He wouldn't have it was unfortunate. It was a TNT game and Charles Barkley, of course having given him the street clothes Nickname it's a bad night for him to have to leave the court But you guys like you were making me laugh because when he laughed it was it was very clear what this Lakers team was Eddie And I feel like you should really defend yourself. Go ahead Well, look Chalmers made a great point. They were right there with them in the fourth quarter Tabs obviously pulled off pulled off late with the with the big run But they didn't lose this game because Anthony Davis had the flu and couldn't Michael Jordan it They lost his game because he shot six of 36 from three. This is like awful awful shooting basketball team LeBron Was two of six yesterday in the most threes on the team and he's creating open shots all game They lost because they cannot shoot the ball Chandler if you can give them ten minutes I'm pretty sure they have a jersey for you like you You have the opportunity if you want if I can give them ten minutes and hit two threes They might have a jersey for me But it was an awful display and then watching the jazz pulled away with that while they just bricked over and over and over Was pretty bad. They need Anthony Davis to be that paint presence They also need somebody to make a jumper every once in a while Well, they just they just cut the only real shooter on their team who wasn't a great player But that didn't really make sense to me But here's my thing too like if you have a 101 fever before the game, right? There's no way the team is letting you come to the game if you're contagious and you can get everyone else I don't know the situation with that. That's one thing you can't really think you can say you have back spasms You can say your knee is sore. You can say a lot of things But 101 fever almost is irresponsible to even let him come to the arena and play if that were true So Respect I guess for trying to play but playing with that hive of fever and being sick is kind of silly When you can just get your whole team sick on the night before back to back I know given the last few years. I feel like a fever is the it's a big glaring neon sign that we have to Chill out for a second. There was a there was a highlight for people like me who are obsessed with overeating uh, joey chestnut sighting in the house with pierogi's no less How about this 47 pierogi's he ate more than everyone else combined who only put down 33 only by the way Chandler, I mean look pierogi's are great. They're dumplings if people don't know How many are we thinking we can do here Chandler? Honestly, this makes me queasy. I hate watching this guy I don't I didn't know what a pro I didn't know what a pierogi was delicious I mean I can eat a lot, but I'm this guy's in a whole another level with I don't think the food matters with this cat No, well, I will say this he had been at saint omos in indianapolis Previous competition restaurant a great restaurant. Obviously known for their shrimp cocktail. He'd won eight years in a row Only placed fourth. Uh, so he's definitely on a slump. So I didn't know if he performed at halftime though I didn't either he's ever performed at like halftime of like a game Like I remember seeing him was it new year's day or like thanksgiving or something like he's eating He's on tv eating like I've never seen him at halftime of an nba game Imagine that being your talent to get paid to eat on national tv I love it It's my dream job. You guys don't even know next time we're all to hanging out get me some powdered donuts I will make you think joey chestnut's an amateur, right? I got this Done that's my thing so moving on It's it's done. It's it's my it's just my favorite. All right, so this was a big part of last night Of course was the Mavs nuggets a lot of expectations for the Mavs Doublehead or back-to-back on that one, but they win in denver luka game-winning assist this time jamal Murray's half court game-winning attempt fell short This was a big deal Chandler Especially you had talked about having been at the game the night before then they had to fly the denver And how difficult that is how impressed were you by the fact that dallas pulled out a w here? Yeah, I I have a lot to say about this game this game This was an awesome game and this is a very very very impressive win for dallas and talking with mark the night before He's swearing that if they make their free throws, they'd be you know 17 and 6 right now And they did last night and i'm watching the game just I couldn't help but think they were gonna blow this lead luka started settling for jumpers You know bruce brown has that big three, but you know, they came up big they made their free throws down the stretch luka made a great pass to dory and fennie smith that had the big three there at the end but it's interesting too because tim hardaway jr. Traveled before he got fouled at the end of the game so If I don't know if he had the clip but these refs They've now created this thing where and they called up they called a travel on jamal murray right before that too and This was a huge play in the game obviously a game never comes down to to one call but Before they fouled him there at the end of the game He traveled and I couldn't help but just think That's a big big miss call especially how much they've been kind of Zeroing in on that call, but this was huge for them tim hardaway was massive the stat about him hitting five threes and five second Of games is is unbelievable and look if someone on the maps has 29 points besides luka They're gonna win a lot of games and He's one of the guys that can step up denwood. He's got to step up woods got to step up I love the kid josh green. He's getting better You know every single time he plays but this Especially on a back-to-back to knock off the suns and the nuggets. This is huge progress for the maves It's to get them kind of go in the right direction Yeah, 50 percent from the floor for the mavericks. They look like a whole They look like a contender the last two nights They they took care of business two tough games a homing road away back-to-back What I like most is what chandler mentioned that that other guys are making shots tim hardaway jr Looks resurgent after working through some injuries the last few years and even a little bit this season Uh chandler text us mid games to yo, they're doubling luka at every second every move He's we're definitely gonna get the hit the under on that. That was our one parlay leg So thanks damper for that. But I think the other end of the court is the issue here You know, nicola yokic are running in vp. They ran him into every action They could if he was on the floor, they were running pick and roll pick and pop They were running him off ball trying to see, you know, if he was gonna switch He's gonna fight through screens and they ate they ate the nuggets with that all night It was it was it was tough to watch and it to me This is when you know, we talk about yokic and where he fits amongst the best in the league and all these guys This is always the achilles ill to me and this is always why I look at the nuggets and say in a playoff series They can be exploited and not only can they be exploited their best player cannon. That's a fatal flaw for them And this honestly this is this didn't work out last night for the nuggies But this is the recipe to beat the maps you double team luka donkat She had 20 held him with 22 points 11 points under his average And it just so happened that tim hardaway stepped up dorian finney smith stepped up these guys hit threes That's what's going to take for the maps to take that next step because come playoff series They're not going to allow luka to get off. They're not going to allow luka to have these 40 point games 50 point games They're going to trap him in every situation pick and rolls post ups as soon as he crosses half court So these other guys are going to have to do what they did last night And kudos to them for doing it on the road on a back to back kind of getting it done for the maps And I do want to focus on luka a little more in a second But on the nugget situation shams, they've lost their last three This is obviously a team with expectations the last several seasons. What is the issue right now? Yeah, I think you said the word right expectations and this is a talented roster you have jamal mary coming back You already have nicole oake two time in me people. You've got michael port jr. Bones highland Um, uh, michael port, you know, mpj like we're waiting on him to get back on the floor He's missed some time with the heel injury But bones highland it was very curious. He said post came that there's been frustration in the locker room I think a lot of that stems from when you have those expectations where a couple years ago when they got Aaron gordon via trade like I thought this team was destined to make a run in the finals They had just been in the conference finals the year before and they just They got jamal mary back this year They just have not gotten even close to that level yet And I think it really does fall on the organization To get the most out of this group because the talent level is there So now I know chandler's played for a few teams that have had expectations in houston and dallas and might not You know reach that level so i'm just curious like when you're in that locker room and you're seeing that happen You're not playing at that level like how how tough is it how frustrating is it? Yeah, it weighs on you and you have the two time mvp You have expectations and and jamal married. He's had some good games this year But last night was really the first time I watched him for an entire game and He's hesitant. He's overthinking. He's turning down shots He catches the ball and he's shot faking and trying to make like playing too unselfish in a way He's two for 11 last night, but it all falls a lot on him. He's their second best player. He's their point guard He's got to be better and I know coming off injury is tough, but He's got to find a way to be more consistent. Yoko just didn't really show up in the second half Um, I love bones. Highland the guy is explosive. He can he can score from all angles Aaron gordon's been great with porter out, but Yeah, this I think jamal mary's got to be better and uh, you know Obviously they need porter back healthy as soon as they can but this is a team that We expect to be a contender and they're struggling right now. I think a lot is to do with jamal mary And back to luka for a second because that it's luka and usage rate Those are all the words that always seem to go together when we're talking about him and his his coach j kid For 82 games, it's no way that he could play at this level. The usage rate is way too high He had 37 minutes 22 points 10 rebounds 12 assists last night Second in the mba and usage rate channeler. Look, obviously jason kids the man who makes the calls But how can he lighten luka's workload and keep this team in the running? Yeah, it's it's funny coming from the head coach because it's right It's kind of in his control there But uh, you almost got to not play luka.   There's number one option some night because I agree luka is unbelievable he's having a crazy year but This is the james harden from a couple years ago the westbrook this this can't he can't sustain this and This is a lot to be doing in november and december and they're gonna need him come playoff time and It would be nice to get these other guys reps as to go to guys So luka doesn't have to do everything for this team But I would consider just shutting him down once every two weeks, which I hate but like it seems like the only option for them Right. Yeah, it is it is kind of funny coming from the head coach. They should play a little different I I think about this the same. I think about what brawn. I think about james harden I think about other guys I don't think luka wants to play another style It would be very easy for him to go hide in the corner or run some off ball Action and you know, they could run flex. They could run pin downs. They could do all kind of stuff. He could do high post I think these guys like playing this way. I think they They they prefer this way and in some ways they can only play this way You know, there's all these famous james harden memes of him without the ball at half court holding his shorts luka's pretty similar You'll see luka standing at the coach's line just watching spencer did what he'd do whatever spencer did what he's going to do I think these guys like this kind of play um In some ways standing in one spot dribbling isn't as tiring as it probably sounds like it is and they can do that all night But I don't think they're going to play any different. It's up to jason kids So for jason kid to be saying this, he knows he can't go in the court and move move luka around So this is the team.  You know, spencer denway let it go chandler let it go Like If you knew he was going to leave you got to trade him before not lose that guy for nothing, but get this guy help It's just he's going to start getting frustrated Well, I saw the end of the game right there were I think four possessions in a row at the end where luka dachi It was literally it was him isolation I think he missed a couple shots and then he turned it over twice like four straight plays denver got the lead back and then dowse came back and won the game But that was a stretch where they could have easily lost the game It was like, you know, they kind of gave the game to denver and then stole it back And that's where the fifth possession. I believe it was luka finally passed out of the double team doran finney smith hit the three Um, I think a lot of the owners does have to fall on just how they play systematically because if the ball moves We know that they have some level of success right doran finney smith can shoot tim harley jr Has been turning it on lately as a starter. Spencer dimwit. He can't provide kind of that secondary type of Offense. So a lot of that also I want to see the trust level improve as well among the team It sounds like luka is the kind of guy you have to protect him from himself And I would have to say the coach is probably the only one they can do that at this point guys Don't look now But we got ourselves a comeback squad the detroit pistons ladies and gentlemen They're making things happen in ferrissing. I would say the miami heat 1 16 96 bug donovich with 31 he had 28 of those After halftime hero 34 in the loss and butler sits chandler Um, let's just do both. What does it say about the pistons? And what does it say about the heat? Uh, it says that bug donovich's trade value isn't going to be higher So they need to move him before they keep winning more games Uh, this he went off last night. This is a horrific loss For for miami. I I can't figure them out because I like their team tyler hero has been really good starting but He almost is better for their team to go get those 20 points off the bench. Obviously they're missing jimmy butler, but Kyle lowery has really really struggled. Um, you know Jimmy being out hurts. He's kind of the glue glue guy do it all but This this can't happen a team that's tanking a team that's missing their best player Uh to do this at home This is this is a tough loss and like I said, I don't I can't understand the heat. I like the roster I like streus I like Robinson the only positive thing they really have is in victor aladipo He played last night if he can come back and he can be that spark plug off the bench because now with hero starting They're kind of thin there and they're going to need someone to come out and get buckets off the bench but this this is a head scratcher because The pistons again, they don't want to win but obviously they're going to go out there and play. This is tough That's a big one. Yeah, the the heat you have to really wonder what what they're going to do with this season going forward They've dangled dunk and robinson and trade talks for since he signed his deal. Basically They've kind of done it a little bit with tyler hero as well They've tried to trade Kyle lowery almost the moment they overpaid him to make it 28 million dollars this year Make 29 million next year. Jimmy butler's contract is obviously a massive max deal as well for a guy who misses a ton of games every year I know like, you know their monster is the basically to get to the playoffs and figure it out from there I know they were a shot away from another trip to the finals last year Literally one shot, but this team is not a good team right now And they can't keep everybody on the floor. They can't find a deal that makes sense They they they dabbled around in the katey talks this summer and and that went wherever it went Obviously, he's a Brooklyn that still I'm not sure what they do because they've been trying to trade these guys for some time I mean soms could shed some light on it. Let me not be the insider guy But it seems like they've been trying to trade some of these guys for some time and have not been able to So if they're not going to trade bam There this is their team. This is their roster. They'll make some changes on the fringes and hope air exposure Remains air exposure and and build something out of this, but there's a big gap between the top teams in the east and this team right here We've worked dunk in robinson But like this is a team like like pat riley He preaches consistency and this is a team that just like you said Eddie one shot away from another I think would have been second finals appearance in three years So I think they bank on that consistency level, but there's no question this team without jimmy butler, especially they're not As dynamic you they started the year they gave tyler here all that money Kind of built the offense around him and then jimmy took on more of an onus than he got hurt So it's been definitely a difficult start. I guess they could put it on injury a little bit But they need to get jimmy butler on the court as much as possible But also every team every team in the east did make a move and got better and the heat roster just kind of stayed the same They kind of did the math thing where like they had a great year and they just kind of stayed the same Which everyone else didn't so they naturally just took a step back, which it's You can't it's not really a good recipe No, I know they beat the Celtics a few days ago But they also got blown out by them just before that and really just pissed Celtics off for the next three weeks so it's Yeah, they got to do something Yeah, it feels like um They were expecting things to be sort of the same and they're not and that's a really hard wake up call for everybody coming up We're taking a quick break is kyle kuzma about to get paid and could we possibly be talking coaching changes with the nicks already? When run it back returns It is time to get the scoop with shams I know you recently had kyle kuzma and spoke with him for the athletic Give us your biggest takeaways from that conversation His brush confidence like this guy is very very confident in his ability. He does not shy away He feels like he's a star in this league and he feels like he was a shelve himself in LA He goes to washington and now he's The third 20 points per game score on this wizard team has been kind of a co-star with bradley bill christos prozingis And so for me our conversation was really about his opportunity to grow But I also looked at the bigger picture like what does this mean for his future? Does he become a guide that the wizards explore because he does does have a player option for 13 million in the summer? Do they explore what's out there for him or do they just hold on to him? Porzingis also has a player option and two teams I would look at that could have a level of interest in him Have expressed interest in him at lana and phoenix the wizards also have talked to to atlanta at times about john collins So could there be some synergy there? We'll see right right now the wizards Want kuzma to be a cornerstone a part of their future moving forward But i'm told when I when I talk to teams around the league The number that keeps coming up is somewhere in that 20 25 million dollar per year range for him on a new deal potentially this off season I mean going to phoenix would be amazing for him and also shout out john collins constantly a part of every Trade talk forever. What do you think though? Do you feel like this could happen or is it just more talk? Well, I think this is something the wizards are going to have to figure out like is this Is this a guy that you want to continue to build around because you know that there's a price threshold You're going to have to get to to retain him. It's going to be You know 20 or more So they're going to have to make a decision getting closer to the trade deadline Is that a route you want to go with or do you go with a guy like john collins? Who's already under contract for multiple years after this year? I believe three years after this year at 25 a year But right now they they want kuzma to work. They want this big three that they formed To be formidable in the east All right, I want to hear I want to hear what you think chaneler 2025. Do you keep him? Do you trade him? What do you do with kuzma? I think they keep him just because it's not really a destination. No one really wants to go there. I don't see them getting much better, but Ignorance is bliss with him. He's he's got confidence.  Is he going to get a bag for sure. He's played great He's got size. He can handle. He can shoot the ball um I like him on a team like phoenix where he's got other players around him and he's you know I liked him on the lakers and now I don't like him so much. It's kind of like one of the guys On the wizard. It's just kind of how it goes. But yeah, you put devin booker next to him He's a lot better. You put him on the hox with that much talent. He's very good But I don't think he's ever a one or two option on a championship team I don't ever think he's an all star, but He's gonna get paid. He's gonna get a hundred million dollars and he deserves it. He's playing well He's versatile. He can do a little bit of everything um, and yeah, the dude is confidence and he's confident and he plays hard and It's funny. He played a little bit of the right way more and LA he still takes some crazy shots, but now and DC he's kind of he's getting even more confidence.  He's 27 years old. He's This is the best deal. He's probably gonna get in his career I think one thing to keep in mind is with the new tv deal coming and his deal will age well The new tv deal will change the bri smack dab in the middle of its contract And it'll look a lot better What I do wonder and what I do think is great team building is you let a guy play up to this contract on your team If you're not a contender you let him walk you don't want him to be the centerpiece of your team But if you are a contender and you have the space to add somebody Maybe somebody like the pelicans can add him and he becomes a piece for you. I think that's a great add So it's it's all about situation Somebody's gonna pay him. I think he's worthy of the contract Um, you know, I wouldn't make him the centerpiece of my team But a complimentary piece at a nice price. Yeah, that can push you over the top Look at what andrew wiggins did last year and we've had a host of those guys over the history of the nba So I think channelers dead on But that's the that's the problem right teams pay guys of what they've done or what they're doing Not what they're going to do and they did it with me. I had great years in my freezing years They paid me it didn't it didn't really pan out for them I can see that being similar I can see them that being similar for kuzma the guy. He's he'll put up big numbers. He'll have big games, but I just I don't see it as a you know on a contending team Like eddie said, he needs to just kind of be that everything guy average 15 five and five He doesn't need to be the guy that's going to get 30 or averaging 20 on a bad team I think the more talent and the better team he's on the better. Kyle kuzma is going to be I love when we get chandler confessions just randomly thrown into the show somewhere in there Shoms, I know this is our friday here being wednesday. We will uh, we will see you monday have a great rest of your weekend weekend Thank you as always Um chandler chandler chandler, you know what? I like this segue by the way because we're going to talk washington wizards It's panic button time This is perfect timing. They're three and seven they're last ten if we're going to talk about whether they're contenders or Not this doesn't look great feel out with a hammy Um, if you're going to hit the panic button on this wizards team eddie Yeah, a little bit and for what a lot of what we just mentioned They have two incredibly tradable players and christmas for zingas and kyle kuzma and people are calling soms reported it Phoenix is interested. Atlanta is interested I'd imagine there's other teams as well and the same thing for poor zingas as both these guys are on expiring deals And they're said to get hefty raises. This isn't a contender by any means So do you triple down with these three guys and say yo, we'll be the sixth seed forever No, that that's not the best way to build a team Maybe not panic today december december 7th, but you have to you have to assume Coming up on the deadline those guys that be looking to get rid of get something for those players before they walk for nothing Yeah, I love leon sis. He's a smart guy, but this just this can't be my team going forward They're never going to win with these three guys It almost feels like brad just kind of got the bag and now he's just kind of hoping to get moved to To a team that he actually wants to be at And but purzingus is playing very very good and and like we just talked about kuzma. He's balling So I think if i'm them i'm making a move because again, they're they're not going to contend But then on the flip side, I don't know who else they can get so i'm panicking just because They kind of put their eggs and all these bad and this this trio's basket and I don't see it Uh zack levine. All right. So all the numbers that you could possibly care about they're all his lowest in five years Chandler, is it time to hit the panic button on zack levine? Yeah, I I do because coming I coming off the knee injuries. It's tough He's always kind of relied on his athleticism. He can shoot the ball. He can score I just don't like him here. I don't like him with de rosen I don't lucid this is one of the teams where you know, if they didn't get off to a hot start I could see them kind of blowing it up and and They're not happy there But somehow billy d got the extension but the players aren't really messing with them I I don't know about the situation But yeah The veen is coming off a knee injury and he's averaging career lows. So that's that's enough for me to hit the panic button Yeah, I mean I talked to somebody about zack before the season started as we're kind of wondering when he's going to come back And they were worried about his knee and they were worried about what he would player He was going to be going forward not that he wasn't going to recover And be at an all-star level just that he might he might be a little different His game is is built on his athleticism. He's one of the greatest jumpers we've ever seen And so to lose even three percent of that is going to hurt him You you wonder what the bulls are doing going forward. They they owe a pick to orlando It's top four protected this year But do you want to risk that and bottom out right now and then it ends up being the five pick? I don't know. I think You know, they just gave their coach an extension. Maybe they're waiting for lanzo ball to come back and saying hey We'll we'll see what we are after that but Yeah, there definitely needs to be some panic with zack levine that many leg injuries knee injuries for a guy who's built on an athleticism It has to be concerning Bit of a bit of a red flag We're going to move over to scotty barns his field goal percentage down about five points from His rookie season as are his points per game and rebounds uh panic button on scotty barns eddy No, because he's so young. He just won the rookie of the year.  He His size jumps out, you know, his ability to handle at that size jumps out and I guess You know, they see him as a honest type going forward So you don't want to panic on a guy that young they Reportedly held on to him and all kate. He talks this summer and and balked at whatever that could have been So they're clearly invested in what he is. So I wouldn't Panic just yet, but I do Say, you know, maybe temper expectations For the next few years because his game is a little rugged And it's not as if you don't watch him every night, you probably think he's something completely different than what he is Because he won rookie of the year last year Yeah, the rookie of the year like you kind of put him in this category, but that's not who he is He's he's averaging 15 7 and 5. So I'm not panicking at all I would wish he'd be a little bit more efficient which his percentages would be up But he's kind of that do it all yannis Siakam type player. He's not the best shooter, but he can play point guard. He can switch pick and rolls defensively He can guard bigs. He can guard smalls. I love scotty barns. I never thought he'd win rookie of the year But now after winning that it's like he's got these expectations And I think people want to see him become this 20 25 point score And that's not really his game. His value is kind of all over the place and doing it all for teams and You don't want to see his percentage drop that much, but he's still so young and he's still producing a lot for this team And and they're also very very good. It's easy. It's easy to put him on the wizards And I guarantee you he'll have some kuzma type numbers But he's actually on a better team with a lot of other guys around him that do a lot of the scoring Uh, Toronto has been notoriously patient with their guys. Sorry, I don't mean to cut you off But they've waited with Pascal Siakam. They waited with ojana newbie. They waited with frevin bleak They're waiting with all their guys. They've been notoriously patient. They're not worried about this at all The nice thing to have an employer, isn't it? Just chill let him marinate see what happens Uh, how about the portland tramp lasers their bench specifically fewest points in the league by a bit channeler This is a depth problem. Are you pushing the panic button on that? I mean, no, it's a problem But again, this team had really low expectations coming into the season They kind of, you know, blew those out of the water early. They're gonna. I think they're gonna start falling off, but Um, yeah, I mean listen their bench is a little thin, but What what did we expect? I know we liked shade and sharp that kid as a rookie We didn't really see play in college. He's so athletic. He's fun to watch But this is a starting five heavy team. They rely on simons. They rely on dame lilor jeremy grant these guys um, it's That's kind of who they are So i'm not worried because I didn't have any expectations of them in the first place But yeah for them to for them to you know make any sort of noise in the in the playoffs if they get there They're gonna need some production from their bench Yeah, look, they're waiting on dame lilor to come back They're waiting on gary patin to make his debut whenever that is and he's not a big scoring punch But he'll make their bench better dame being in the starting lineup pushing guys into the bench as well We'll make that team better They just got to get healthy and and and I agree that you know shading sharp He should grow throughout the season and be a key piece for them off the bench in that second unit That's our first official hot seat topic. It's the nicks 11 and 13. They're under 500 at the garden And now we begin his tips on the hot seat. Should he be eddie panic button on tips Yeah, I I think so. I mean they're heavily invested in winning now. They've paid so much money from these guys This was their big splash, you know jaylon brunson uh, we were keeping randall Giving rj barrett his deal They they didn't go after donovan mitchell. They kept his guy grimes Yeah, this team wanted to win. He was a little bit on the hot seat last year They had to come forward and say hey, we're not fired on the summer I think he's one of those that you you do you do got to wonder Everybody's wondering what's going on his rotation. Derek roses in plane. He's basically never like cam reddish There seems to be a disconnect somewhere The problem for them is I don't know who steps in it and takes that job right behind him It might not be somebody on the advance. Maybe it's a frank vogel. Who knows what they do But yeah, he's I I'm thinking you you got a panic and put him on the hot seat right now for sure Yeah, I think his seat is piping hot. I think this I think this is a shitty job I think this team is not very good.  I do like jaylon brunson But again, this is a young team that's kind of growing in a you know, the biggest market basically in the league And this is an old school coach who I can just tell you like the cam reddish thing They are just they couldn't be further apart in the personalities and styles and so when you get that there is kind of Headbutting there is there's it's just a different generation and tibbs is one of the last kind of og coaches and Taping guys for shoot around and that's just I don't think that style is going to have A lot of success with the personnel that this team has but Yeah, I think I don't I wouldn't want this job if I was out there and tibbs got fired The dolin curse Lives on Until that changes ain't nothing changing at the garden y'all. That's just bottom line Uh, how about up next base and plumb lays his left-handed shots got the whole world talking and Another regular season trophy plus players calling their own fouls. That's next Oh, yay Another trophy this time to the team with the best regular season record That's right the morris puddle off trophy named after the first nba commissioner. Um What are we doing guys is this a great idea or the worst idea chandler does anybody care?  It's it's useless right people play for an nba championship This I mean, I guess it's kind of cool to for like free agent pitches to say look we have the best record, you know, but Yeah, it reminds me of the Dodgers the Dodgers win the regular season Care is if you don't win the world series Um, I don't like it It's just like like we touched on last show or the couple shows ago where it's like western conference finals mvp or finals mvp It's like all these awards Everyone's playing for the nba championship. So I don't know. I don't know why I don't know I don't get it and I don't think anybody's really gonna care I think you're still gonna see teams resting for the playoffs to compete for a championship Um, but sure is it cool to you know, give teams more accolades fine, but I think it's pretty useless Yeah, like do the standings exist still do they can we still see them? Are they readily available as they I think so I don't Shout out to the first commissioner of the league and and all of that good stuff But what are we doing right now? Why do if you put this trophy in your trophy case as an organization You should be ashamed of yourself because there's only one trophy that matters and there's only one trophy you should want So this is going to look really weird back there with your banner about winning the division That doesn't matter anymore. Anyway, so like I don't I don't like sick division Why don't we have that many trophies? I don't know It's setting them up for failure too once they lose to once they lose first or second round But like sick trophy that you gave me for a great regular season Right ask the feeding sons how they feel like Oh, that's not a big fan a season ticket holder or something. Don't put that in your office, mr. Owner No, this is a straight-up attendance record trophy. So or participant. It's just stupid Anyways, I'm not a big fan of empty empty awards But that's that's just neither here nor there because we really need to get down to mason plumbly What in the world is going on with this left-handed shot and also the reactions Of players on the bench specifically george ill. Um, they seem perplex chandler. Is this is just not normal I mean, yeah, this is a guy that's been right-handed his entire career And he's he's taking elbow jumpers with his left hand Honestly respect to him. This is this is a ballsy move and this is not easy to do Like if I went and shot free throws even with the not the flow of the game I would not make more than 50 percent of them. This guy's taking jumpers in game You know, he's been in the league forever. I respect him making the change I always wonder guys like Ben Simmons the andre geord Why they don't do something like this or that why they're not calling rick barry and learning how to shoot under hand This is I mean It's kind of psychotic to have to keep doing the same thing over and over again So respect to him you can see the players I love it. It's pretty fascinating that this guy straight up was right-handed and now he's left-handed and is, you know Panther whatever near it is in the league I mean, hill looks like somebody literally just took a dump right next to him Like that's the face you make when someone smells awful eddy. Um, we should respect it, right? I mean, he's he's trying. He's doing something Yeah, west bad. He's also very blown away But no, like can he make a doc is the did he film the training to do this? I'd watch the tick talk about this if it exists, but no, I'm all credit doodle. It went in the other one went in the next night as well Oh, you know, I remember Tristan Thompson changed hands on his free throw shooting I think in like a second or third year. It didn't really help but he changed. He changes a lot of things But that sorry That's all I'm going to say with that like, you know But no, it's a couple guys in this league who probably should change hands And try to make their job for work If this band started shooting threes left-handed Put them put them in the all-star game because that it was hard to do Do a clinic do some it is fascinating to watch but the reactions to me are By the way, this is funny because Austin Rivers should consider doing the same thing I was gonna say the same thing about McTee's thighball These guys that can't shoot should not be laughing This is so maybe there are a lot of guys that should be doing this. I love it so much I could I'll watch reaction shots of this pretty much for about three hours Yeah, the reactions are way better than the jumper. This is great. Tell him It's smart too because expectations are low now that he's shooting opposite-handed So it's like if he's shooting 50 left-handed he's shooting 60 righty Who cares people are expecting him to miss and understand what he's going through I'm talking Ben Simmons Ben Simmons needs to do this Yeah, I think this is made for Ben. This is a Simmons moment. I hope he's paying attention We're taking a quick break. Uh, when we come back pop the balloons and throw away the celebration Our one parlay streak Is over. We'll try again Well, there it is we were feeling hot feeling good feeling pretty And got three of the four wrongs, but I will say this Chandler luka donchich I I can't say at a bad game He just didn't have all the points that he was maybe gonna have so this only can mean one thing guys We can only go up from here Let's try again. Eddie, what do you have for today's or like parlay your two? I I think it can get worse. I think it can still get worse. Chandler's at home. He's not partying with anybody We don't have a hard point. I'm going to hoax I'm going to hoax with the points versus the nicks. Uh, f tray young and pool effect I think they pulled out the wind. Why are the nicks getting points? Like what are we doing here? I I don't know I don't get so After that, I'm going with Where's my thing at pacers? Oh, yeah Over the timber walls Again, same thing. Why are the timber walls favored against anybody? I got the pacers running them out the gym Uh, we're we're gonna keep betting against rego bear until he makes us pay for it Which I don't see everywhere Wow had to add the extra shade. All right. Chandler I hate to say it, but I love both of eddie's picks The rule is my 30 Yeah, tonight I like I like the under here. I doubt ad plays back to back um Yeah, I I just don't see a lot of points here, uh, which I think is going to help the lakers I mean nine and a half points is a lot of points Um, I like if ad's not out. I like if he's in but if he's out it gives opportunity for other guys to step up Um, I feel really confident about these stuff. You don't know you don't We know that means we're probably gonna go over four, but I love them I like eddie's more than mine to be honest with you Well, that's uh, that's not well if you bet 20 you win 233 So that's something christmas is around the corner. That's you know, obviously gotta spend a lot of money for that Um, I will say this Shout out to the timber wolves for giving matt ryan a gig. I think he signed on a two-way I just just see breaking news that ben simmonds hoping to play on friday Eddie cancel all your plans. Am I right? Against Atlanta his his nemesis in the paint tray um, he's gonna he's gonna see him In his face for the first time since then I I can't wait I like this part relates to but i'm gonna say now because we won't be back for a while Chandler betting big on the lakers is terrifying me the lakers to stay close and the lakers defense to keep me close I also I don't know how the nicks are getting points to is someone out for atlanta like I this this spread confuses me It's too good to be true My god, I the fact that I have to sit here and listen to you two Every time that you try to do this and pretend like it's the day that we should do six We should do six leg parlays and you hop in and see how see how easy it is That's our friday. Happy wednesday. Enjoy your week and your weekend. See you monday


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maybe make some good deals in store thank you so much microcenter for sponsoring the video now let's get back to it so it is midnight and we are about to go on a road trip the reason we're going on a road trip is because today is the release of the rtx 3070 and if any of you guys have tried to buy a 3000 series card so far you have noticed that they are all sold out before you can even buy one because people are botting the cards and then flipping them so i figured why not go and try to pick one up in person so we and will are going to drive down to tuss in california which is about a four-hour drive and hopefully beat the traffic to pick one of these cards up in person i want to benchmark it because i want to see first hand just how powerful this card is so i have an rtx 2080 super inside this pc and then we are going to compare it to the 3070 if we can pick one up and i want to see just how amazing it actually is will you're gonna pick this up and and take it outside and load it up into the car bro no you're gonna you're gonna come load it up into the no it's fine i'm just paying you i don't mind no it's cool i'll unlock the door too all right let's get going so i actually make this drive to la pretty often but uh i actually never show the drive and people have been asking lately you know like hey what do you do like what actually happens on this drive and being honest you know you listen to a lot of audiobooks hey will hey hard go uh we talk about our feelings money power and women bro aren't you single and overall it's just like a really wholesome time hey girl how's it doing baby boo about to fix your pc and to put some moves on you yeah that's right you talking to a christopher yee if i give you this graphics card will you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior linus tech tips he is really putting in that extra effort that content are finally here how bad is it okay oh my god why it's the it's the budget for what is this uh should i honk at him i don't know why i didn't think a million people were gonna be here i wanted to think that there weren't gonna be a million people here it's just the 3070 so you know how we can tell we got a bunch of gamers out here waiting for a new graphics card they leave their scent everywhere wow that's bad that's like more than black friday bad where are they doing check-ins they're doing hourly check-ins let's go let's go see what i can do all right so we just showed up and it looks like they have someone that's not even working at microcenter organizing the line so i don't know props to the crowd for trying to get everything in shape and working correctly but uh i don't know i kind of want to figure out how long people are waiting here i just want to ask how many how many people are here right now if you had to guess on the way over 200 and you said it sounds like they're confident they'll have enough for everybody here it's out the way they spoke to me before they went home for the night last night they were very confident after 100 we're pushing 200 i don't know what the exact figure is but the second we get word we're gonna update the line to know what the reality of it i'm curious you said you don't work for microcenter so like i just wanted to know how is it that you came to like manage the line and stuff like that feeling okay okay we'll see good job all right oh they have a link in everything must be present for all check-ins check-in times 10 a.m one p.m four p.m dude well i want to find the guy who's first line i want to ask him how long even way here andy you're the first guy in line right yeah how long have you been here for i've been here since tuesday one p.m so you've been here for over 48 hours yeah i'm like 50 something oh my god are there more people here for the 3070 release than the 3090 no there was more the difference between this release and the 3090 was they gave a hard number that said hey everybody behind them you basically have no chance what are you going to use the graphics card for it's not even for me man it's for a commission well my question is since you've been here the longest what's the craziest thing that you've seen since you've been out here it's been pretty civil um i've been very fair we gave the the reason there was so much contention is that i i cut um i didn't even cut i just had the times there and there was a cut space where there was a nine hour gap where people can sleep and uh they had issues with that okay out here waiting for a 3000 series card you're not allowed to sleep ah okay so what's your name bro victor victor how long have you been waiting here so i came here wednesday uh around six uh so luckily with this it was really leaning like at seven with the last check in the next checking was at four and i lived like 30 minutes away so i just drove home so you've been here for 24 hours oh okay so my question is what are you going to do with the card why do you want the card my my old graphics card is horrible i had the gtx 745 oh my god okay i i can't run much on that but i've been i've been making it work i've optimized that really get out of my pc but with this it's gonna gonna change everything nice i got a question has anything crazy happened since you blinded up no it's been really well really okay good i don't know but i've been spending a lot of time in my car because people have been crowding because i've sat like in this area right here and people have been really crowding and like i'm not trying to get caught yeah i've just been chilling in my car going to sleep i'm pretty tired but i mean it is what it is you're almost there finished live right so so that is the front of the line and then that is the loop to the docking bay into two crevices in the parking lot back there looping all the way finally back around over here that's that's actually insane so it's about five minutes till they open see if we can talk our way in okay so i may have lied we might have a card to benchmark here live on campus but we are also trying to buy one so oh here it is thank you so much i appreciate it should we just walk outside and can you imagine there's just like if i all these people like some people have been out there since Tuesday i'm just like all right so we have the msi gaming trio so our job here today is to benchmark this card and we want to see how this holds up to an rtx 2080 super so we have the pc out in the car but before we do benchmark this thing oh my gosh how did did you guys have to sneak these in oh my lord these were direct ship oh my gosh how many is this 600 wow so you know you said there was only like 300 and like 50 people out there right so like if like we don't want to these just so as it turns out they have enough for the crowd that's awesome oh all right let's get out of the way this is so cool so not only are they prepared to have everyone get the graphics card they're also giving donuts coffee gloves micro center was ready for the 30 70 drop let's go talk to the last people online hello is this the end of line i got a question how confident are you guys that there's going to be any cards left uh seeing the amount of people right now not very confident uh-huh let's finally find out how good this graphics card actually is so since we are running off of limited sleep and time we only have enough time to test three different benchmarks that's going to be 3d mark unigine heaven and cinebench r20 the first card is going to be rtx 2080 super and then we're going to pop in this bad boy over here so those are the results for the rtx 2080 super it is approaching 23 000 on the fire strike test which is the test that i'm going to be paying closer attention to which according to it places it in the 95th percentile of performance for gaming pcs in 2020 in my opinion this is good enough for anything that you would need for the foreseeable future however we are not here for good enough we're here to see how good it can be so now it's time to test this thing and see where it stacks up okay so after running all of the benchmarks on fire strike the 30 70 performed about 15 percent better than the 2080 super on cinebench r15 it performed about 7 percent better and then on a unigine heaven the 30 70 performed about 12.5 percent better which if you were to average all of these scores together the 30 70 performed roughly around 11 to 12 percent better than the rtx 2080 super i know these are not perfect tests and if i had more time i would have loved to have run a series of games on this but just looking at that performance alone and factoring in that this card costs $500 for most models it is an insane buy if you are able to get your hands on one of the rtx 30 70s i highly recommend it i think that the performance that you were getting for the amount that you were paying is unreal and is unparalleled by any other release that we have seen so far before we wrap up the video i want to give a huge thank you to microsoft center for giving us a day one access to the car and letting us benchmark it in the store while they are busy trying to help customers by their own rtx 30 70s as far as what we have here that is the end of the video so i really just want to say thank you so much for watching i hope you found this creative entertaining or informative in any way shape or form and as always have a great day thank you guys so much i appreciate it sorry for using your workspace all right let's uh let's get out of here before they notice i took an extra voucher


Okay, stand by, rolling, action! So this is something really cool that we've never done before. We've started to do sequels to movies. This is actually going to be the Goonies 2 set. We're going to shoot Goonies 2, at least a little bit of it, and see how it goes. What a set of Goonies 2! Crazy. We've got a few Easter eggs in here, and in this shot, we're going to get a little over the top of the map as the young boy wipes off the dust of the map and discovers the new or the old original Goonies map. So we've got the camera set up so that we're just peeking over the top of the frame, and in the background, there's a little few Easter eggs there. You might see some characters from an 80s movie hiding back there. So the cool thing about this one is we've brought back the idea that the kids from the original now grown up, and we have brought new kids in, and we're saying that the new kids are actually the sons and daughters of the old kids. So Mikey from the original one, we have now Will. Will is the kid of Mikey, and Will, his name Will, because of One-Eyed Willy, of course. And then we've also got Ruth, and Ruth is Chunk's kid. And then we've got Spex. Spex, he's not connected to the old movies. He's just the smart kid, but he's also really shy and really scared. He's a really big, scaredy cat. And yeah, so we're shooting three scenes of this movie to kind of give you a taste and a flavour of what the feature film would be like if it was to be made. So, yeah. Okay, so let's get the camera in position. What do you mean? We're behind, like we're behind. Yeah, we've got a cat behind me. Yeah, cool. I might get excited about this one. I even tried to draw you in it, so... Wait, did you try and draw?  So essentially, it's what we're doing. We're going to try and move the shot in closer, and then you're going to do a big reveal of the door. And then you're kind of going to go for the torch that's in your pocket. We're going to put it in here. Apparently, it's in the pocket. Yep, yep. But you can also, once you get here, take off your hoodie and like you're kind of entering in. A bit further up here, you can move all the stuff out of the way and get like almost like a wide of him taking off the top of that. But I don't know how, like I feel like...  From here? Yeah, you have the camera over here and then he's standing this way.  Because I quite like him saying it and I think it adds to the whole feel of the looking movie. So we've got that. I wanted to get a close-up shot of him kind of picking it up. So him kind of walking up here and kind of picking it up with you. So he's sitting over the shoulder. Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah. So thinking of what we've got and how these cut in, I reckon we get that shot from here, not from square on, just so it keeps the screen language. Sure, sure. And I think too, it'll also... I was thinking more over there because if you don't, that's going to get blasted by light in about two and a half seconds, right? Yeah, but then... You also lose that kind of beam look to it. Always cutting back to one of the master positions, right? When he travels from one end to the other. Definitely. Then we're in here for the pickup. Then we're back on the wide for the put-down or you can come into shot from down there. You don't want to overcomplicate that. I agree, I agree. So I reckon we go this way, that way, this way. Let's do it in order of the scene actually. So that way, that and then that. Yep. Okay. So you're wrapped in your first day. Yay. One down 75 to go. No, just kidding.


Le Quang Liem wrapped up Jib Chess at 7 out of 10. He joins us in our studio. Liem, a very interesting game with the white pieces. You took your chances. Tell us about the critical moments. Yeah, I think today's games went quite smoothly for me. After the opening, I was very happy with my position. I was a little surprised when he played this move C5 that allowed me to close the centre with D5 and then I had a very nice square for my knight on C4. I think it's strategically winning for white because all my pieces are very nicely placed and I have attacking chances on the king side. However, later on, the critical moment I think was after I played E5, D1, NxE5, Rd6. And I was sure there was a win, but I couldn't find it and I spent a lot of time. And finally, I decided to play Nec4 which still gave me a very good advantage, but NxE4 would be the crushing move and it's a pity that I missed that move. You had a tough day yesterday. How did you deal with that to come back strong today? Yesterday was a big disappointment for me when I lost in a very promising position against Yu Yung Yi. I guess I was just too optimistic in the middle game and instead of playing it safely, I decided to take my chances and it didn't work out well. So I thought, okay, that game is gone. I just have to focus on the last game and okay, I won't be able to fight for the first prize but let's hope that I can gain some ratings, maybe get some prize. So yeah, just try to enjoy the game today. It's a good approach. Apart from yesterday's disappointment, overall happy with your play? Yes, I think this year I play very decent chess. I scored half a point less than last year but still I gained some rating points. So it's not too bad for me. And what are your upcoming plans? My next tournament will be the spring classic in St. Louis in March and then probably some other open tournaments. And have you been following the top board games today? Of course, all the games are very, very exciting and surprising. I don't expect Maxime to get a losing position. I don't know if he can hold this but it looks a little difficult for him. Also LeVon, I don't know why he sucked the piece after the opening. But yeah, I mean they probably were over pushing and but okay, Artimieff, he played really well and I really expect him to win this tournament. Definitely, he deserves it after his play here. Thank you for joining us and enjoy the evening. Thank you very much.


We are unable to respond to technical questions about the RFP during the time between the publication date and the completion of the RFP process. In all questions concerning the RFP, the process or programmatic issues must be submitted in writing by email to listosgrants at caloes.ca.gov. So we're going to go ahead and go over the first presentation, which will be the request for proposal, an overview of that, and then the second half of the presentation will be a training on the forms. So the first part will be Katie Hardaway. So go ahead and take away, Katie. Hi, thank you, Cindy, and thank you everybody for attending today. As she said, I will be going over the request proposal for the overview training. Let's get started. So the agenda today is the listosgrant unit contact information, the program overview, the purpose of the grant, the eligibility criteria, funding for the LI program, programmatic components, reporting requirements, proposal rating, and the checklist. You're going to notice that I'm going to go through this slide set and read most of everything.  So please be patient, sorry. Listosgrant unit, the contact information. Listosgrant unit is responsible for the overall grant management of the Listos California Statewide Grant LS program, the Listos California Target Grant LG program, and the Listos California Tribal Grant LI program, and Listos California CERT program LC program. Questions concerning the RFP, the process, or the programmatic issues must be submitted in writing by email to listosgrantsatcaloes.ca.gov. CalOES staff cannot assist the applicant with any actual preparation of the proposal. CalOES can only respond to technical questions about the RFP during the period of time between the publication date and the completion of the RFP process. Program overview. In FY 2022-23, Budget Act included $25 million ongoing general fund appropriation to CalOES. $1 million of that went to the Listos California Tribal Grant LI program via competitive process. Applicants can apply this year for up to $200,000. Grant sub-award performance period is between June 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024. This is an important date, guys. Please make note of it. Submission deadline is Monday, March 27, 2023 by 5 p.m. via email at listosgrants.caloes.ca.gov. The purpose of the grant is for the LI program is to support federal recognized tribes located in California that serve populations in areas at moderate to high risk for natural hazard. Tribal governments can work independently with their tribal governments or with local CBOs to provide disaster training and resources to vulnerable and diverse populations. The goal of this work is intended to increase their community's disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation capabilities. For definitions, social vulnerability, the potential negative effects on communities caused by external stress on human health. Such stresses include natural or human-caused disasters or disease outbreaks. Reducing social vulnerability can decrease both human suffering and economic loss. Social vulnerable populations include those that have special needs such as but not limited to people without vehicles, people with disabilities, older adults, and people with limited English proficiency. Eligibility criteria for the proposal to be considered, i.e. the reading and rated, applicants may be a federal recognized tribe with administrative offices located in California. Have an unaltered grant subaward programmatic narrative and grant subaward budget narrative in accordance with the instructions on part two, section B of the RFP. Cal OES cannot accept alternate or modified forms without undermining its neutral competitive selection process and will not read pages more than the maximum allow. One proposal must be emailed to listosgrantsatcaloes.ca.gov by 5 p.m. on Monday, March 27, 2023. Proposals must be attached as one single PDF document and contain the forms outlined in part two of the RFP instructions. Emails should identify the name of the RFP in the subject line. An example would be LIRFP, My Brother's House Organization. Funding for the tribal grant, one million was available for the LI program for the grant subaward performance period. Applicants may apply for up to 200,000. Subrecipients may request advance up to 25% of their awarded funds. There is no match required for the LI program. Subrecipients cannot sub-grant to other CBOs that have been awarded Listos California grant program funds. Programmatic components, managing a sub-grant funds to local CBOs, Listos California grant program materials, communication requirements, training, establishing and implement a peer-to-peer engagement approach, identify gaps and proposed solutions, host a conversation to identify emergency preparedness and needs of the community for integration into the local emergency plans, capture stories of impact. The subrecipient may sub-grant funds to the local CBOs who will provide disaster training and resource to vulnerable and diverse populations and have the ability to serve as a physical sponsor for the selected local CBOs. Subrecipients cannot sub-grant to other CBOs that have been awarded Listos California grant program funds. The number of the local CBOs selected should be informed by the regional picture of vulnerable populations the applicant intends to reach. Those local CBOs will engage the greatest possible number of vulnerable members in the applicant service area to reach the statewide objective of collecting more than one million Californians to culturally and linguistically competent support. The Listos grant California grant program materials and communications required. The Listos California grant materials is required and will be provided by a California OES vendor. Further information will be provided once a vendor is selected. If the subrecipient chooses to produce their own materials with Listos California grant program funds, they must receive prior approval from Cal OES including Listos California logo. Subrecipient must respond within five days to the all Cal OES required programmatic requests. For training the subrecipient must incorporate the materials and resources developed for and provided by the Listos California grant program in any emergency preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation training conducted with grant funding. The subrecipient must attend monthly Listos California instructional training offered by Cal OES or a Cal OES designated vendor during the first six months of the grant sub award performance period. The subrecipient must attend monthly training classes meetings to receive updates and resources throughout the grant sub award performance period. Established and implement a peer-to-peer engagement approach. Tribes who represent and connect to the region's most diverse and vulnerable populations will create and implement a peer-to-peer approach to engage and educate the community that reflects the needs of the target population. Each tribe must organize their community to establish a tailored approach which will ensure their community. One is knowledgeable about what to do during a disaster and consider engaging community partners such as the faith-based community schools and community centers. Two has emergency preparedness materials that can access information they need before a disaster hits. Three is clear on the steps to take to increase their community's disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation capabilities and keep themselves, their families and their communities safe. Four, share final approach and results with the Cal OES Listos California support team. Identify the gaps and the purpose solution. The subrecipient must identify gaps raised by the community input in the peer-to-peer engagement and organizing process and proposed solutions to strengthen local county emergency plans. Share the recommendations on identified gaps and solutions with the Cal OES Listos California program support team. Host a conversation to identify emergency preparedness needs. A subrecipient must host a conversation to identify disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation needs of the community for integration into the tribal emergency plans. As a joint effort with the local leaders across sectors including tribal offices of emergency management. Share outcomes of the conversation with the Cal OES Listos California support team. Capture the stories of impact. The subrecipient must capture stories of impact highlighted in the outcomes and the results of the tribal strategies and connections. Made as part of this effort and the illustrate the purpose and intent of the LI program and provide the stories to Cal OES Listos California support team. These stories may be submitted in writing articles, written articles, videos and photos. Please ensure that formal permission is granted for all stories. Reporting requirements. These are five progress reports required for the program. See the chart below for the reported period and due dates. Notice that June 1st, 2023 through September 30th, 2023 is due with the 30 day grace period on October 31st, 2023. I recommend that you do it at the first of the month simply because these things can get forgotten easily, and then we have to send out from the Listos team reminders. In order to avoid that, please do it by the first part of October. Engagement report. Subrecipients are required to submit data directly through an online database immediately after an engagement activity or training commences or no later than the end of each month. Engagement reports are based upon direct public engagement activities. To determine what constitutes an engagement, refer to the primary guidance for defining and tracking engagements. The link listed in the request for proposal. The link will direct you to the document that outlines what is considered engagement. Examples would be events, outreach efforts or demonstrations. Best to view the link to make sure what qualifies. And here we've outheaded and added one of these links and what it looks like in order to be able to track and look into the engagement. Please take the time to go into the RFP, select the link and look at the information on what is considered engagement. Proposal rating sheet. This is a competitive grant process, meaning that your applications will be ranked in comparison to all other applications received. Each of the above categories contain questions assigned a point value. The point scale is divided into five columns. First one is absent. The response does not address the specific question or a response that was not provided. Unsatisfactory. The response does not completely address the question the information presented does not provide a good understanding of the applicants intent. Satisfactory. The response addresses the question and provides a good understanding of the applicants intent. The response adequately supports the proposal and the intent of the program above average. The response is above average and provides a clear and detailed understanding of the applicants intent. The response presents a persuasive argument that supports the proposal and the intent of the program. And then there's my favorite. Excellent. The response is outstanding with clear, detailed and revelant information. The response presents a compelling argument and supports the proposal and the intent of the program. Here are the forms that will be required to fill into that one PDF form. You'll go into these links in the RFP.  When you send it into the list of grants at caloes.ca.gov. Recommendation for the award, the final funding decisions are made by the director of Cal OES. Funding decisions are based on the following. The ranked score of the proposal. Consideration of priorities and geographical distribution specific to this RFP. Prior negative administrative and programmatic performance if applicable. Once the decision has been made, the applicant will be notified in writing. Those not selected will receive a denial letter and information on the appeal process. Proposal submission, the proposal package must be received electronically. No later than 5pm on Monday, March 27, 2023 to list those grants at caloes.ca.gov. Notice how the lettering is getting bigger on the date. Please write it down. Questions concerning the RFP. The process or the programmatic issues must be submitted in writing by email to Lisa's grant at caloes.ca.gov. All Cal OES staff cannot assist the applicant with the actual preparation of their proposal. Cal OES can only respond to technical questions about the RFP during the period of time between the publication date and completion of the RFP process. This concludes the Listos California grant program for the RFP training. William, take it away. Hi, my name is William Chan. I'm the program specialist with the Listos grants unit. Today we're going to give a presentation on the grant subboard proposal process. We're going to provide guidance on the components that are required of a proposal. And we are going to review those forms that we referenced just a moment ago and familiarize you with some tools that are available. The process of submitting a proposal begins with a request for a proposal being released. This is our competitive process. Within the request for a proposal, you will find fund source information, the background of the program, requirements and expected deliverables and instructions on how to apply. So where do you find a request for a proposal? You can be found on the Cal OES website at caloes.ca.gov. And on the upper right corner, you will click on initiatives. And from the drop down menu selection, you will select search for grants. Once you're on the search for grants landing page, there are a couple of ways to search. You can find the Listos California RFPs by scrolling down on this page or you can use the search box. I like to use the search box when I know which request for proposal I'm looking for. You can type the name of the program, the box or if you know the two letter program acronym, you can type that in instead. Although we are talking about a request for proposal, I'll let you draw your attention to the mailing lists. When the Cal OES releases a request for proposal, our competitive process for funding, we send an email notification to anyone who has signed up for our mailing lists. Please know the only time you will send an email is when we release a new request for a proposal, sending a solicitation to fill a position for one of our advisory bodies, or when we post a public meeting notice. If you are not signed up already, we strongly encourage you to do so so that you can receive these important notices. Cal OES released a Listos California Tribal Grants Program request for proposal on February 8, 2023, and applicants have approximately seven weeks to put the proposal packets together from that date. Once complete, applicants will need to email a copy of the proposal packet to the Listos Grants Unit at listosgrants at caloes.ca.gov. Let's talk about the request for proposal, or RFP itself. The RFP has three parts. Part one is what you have to do. It explains the Public Records Act, submission deadlines, eligibility, grant and sub-board performance period funding, and programmatic requirements. Part two refers to policies or administrative requirements and includes references to the sub-recipient handbook, components that are required with your proposal, policies concerning the budget, administrative requirements, and required or additional forms that may apply towards your proposal. Part three is a checklist that includes a list of the documents that are required with the proposal and links to the most current forms. This is an example of what the checklist looks like. It includes all the required components and links to each form. Under the additional form section, these forms may or may not be required depending on what you have in your budget. For example, if you do not have out-of-state travel, you will not need to include this form with your proposal. There are eight forms that are required with every request for proposal, regardless of the program type. Please note that most programs will require additional forms, so read your request for proposal thoroughly. In these next slides, we're going to tell you about some of the more common mistakes that we find with these eight forms so that you know what we are looking for when we review your proposal. You can find these forms at the very end of the RFP in the checklist section with a hyperlink to each form. But first, here are a few helpful reminders. Number one, read the entire request for proposal to understand what is required for the program. Number two, please note that all forms have instructions. So if you have questions about a form, look at the instructions first and then email these sales grants at caloes.ca.gov for help. Use current forms. Cal OES updates our forms often. If you're using one of our forms that you've saved on your desktop, it's possible that you may have it outdated. And you'll be asked to redo the form, which may do the processing of your award if selected. Okay, let's start with the grant support face sheet. The instructions are on the left and the most recent version of the face sheet is on the right. A few of the most common mistakes we find on the grant support face sheet include, last four digits of the zip code are often missing. Please be sure to go to the U.S. Postal Service website to look up your plus four and include that on your face sheet. For disaster slash program title, this needs to match the name of the program you're applying for. This can be found in the request for proposal. For example, if you're applying to the least sales California travel grants ally program, then write these sales California travel grants ally program on line five. Next indirect cost rates and federally approved ICR. This is where you will indicate whether you're using the 10% de minimis rate or your agency's federally approved indirect cost rate agreements. A copy of the approved ICR negotiating agreements must be enclosed in your application if you are using a federally approved ICR. If you will not be claiming indirect costs under this award type in N. Okay, this is the table that appears on the face sheets. We've zoomed in so that it's easy to see. This is where your funding information will go and you can find all this information in your request for proposal. Please note that the grant year and fund source are now dropped down boxes columns A and G can be typed in and will automatically total for you. In your request for proposal and part one section F funding information, you will find the information needed to correctly fill out the face sheet. This is an example of a grant sub award number. There is no need to fill in the sub award line area on the forms requesting it. The sub award number is given once an applicant has been awarded grant funds. This is the grant sub board contact information form. The instructions are on the left and the most recent version of the form is on the right. There's a list of things to keep in mind. Remember to use the most updated forms from our website. Don't forget to write the entire nine digit the code number. Do not use white out to fix any corrections. Onlines one and two make sure the number one grant sub award director and the number two financial officer are different. They cannot be the same person. Onlines two and five make sure the number two financial officer and the number five executive director are different. They cannot be the same person. And the number seven chairperson also cannot be listed again at any of the other positions numbers one through six. Leave the grant sub board number section blank. This will be filled in for you if you are awarded. And lastly, please make sure the official designated the official designated by the governing board on line six is the person who signed the grant sub award face sheet. This is the signature authorization form. The instructions are on the left. The most recent version of the form is on the right. When we review the signature authorization form be compared to the contact information form to ensure the grant sub board director and financial officer are the same authorized personnel. You can list alternate individuals that have authority to sign on the on the grant sub board director and financial officers behalf. Just like the grant sub board director and financial officer can have the same person. You cannot have one person being an authorized signer on both sides of this form. It is best to have at least one authorized signer for each position. If someone is unavailable and you need to request funds or make a modification is easy to do so when you have a different authorized signers for each position. If not, there's nothing you can do until they return. If you want to change authorized signers, you must submit a grant sub board modification to Cal OES as soon as possible because it takes approximately two weeks to process. So it is important to make a modification request immediately when the change has been made internally in your organization. This is the current list of certification assurance of compliance documents we have. A common mistake is signing and submitting the wrong one. We must receive the one that's tied to the fund source of your program. The checklist and part three of the request for proposal will tell you exactly which one is needed. Another mistake is using an old version of a document. The way to ensure you have the current version is by downloading it from our website. Again, the checklist will have the link for the correct and current version. Please be sure you're reading this document in full so you know what the requirements are because when you sign this you certify that you are compliance. The red arrows are some areas I want to bring to your attention. Number one sub recipient is the name of your agency. Please have this match was written on the face sheets. Number two point out line one. The applicant should complete the Cal OES program name and the grant sub board performance period. The grant sub board number should be left blank. Your program specialist will fold this in for you. Number three ensure appropriate signers have signed the documents. This would be the official doesn't need by the governing board. Number four for federally recognized tribes and community based organizations. It must be the governing board chair that signs in this section. The budget is normally the next document in your proposal. In terms to dash 106 B grant sub board budget pages single fund source the Cal OES has three budget categories. Category A is personnel category B is operating expenses and category C is equipment. All three categories must be submitted with their application whether or not you have items in that category. For example, if you do not have equipment, you can write none requested in that category. All three categories must be included in your application packet. The budget spreadsheet template will automatically add the columns on each tab and please show the equation on each line item as to how you got the total. The personnel category is where you'll want to put salaries, benefits over time for people you employ at your agency. This is also where you will put your volunteer hours. The operating category is the meat and potatoes program. This is where you'll want to put just about everything else including rent, travel, training, office supplies, etc. The equipment category is where you'll put non expendable property having a useful life of more than one year and a cost of $5,000 or more per unit. To just be clear, if you're buying six laptops at the cost of $1,000 each for a total of $6,000, you would put those laptops in the operating expense category, not in the equipment because the per unit price of the laptops is less than $5,000. Now let's talk about the information we need to see on the budget pages. The gold bubbles you'll see on the next few slides contain the elements that need to be included in each calculation for each line item. In this example, we have a program advocate position that's making $4,000 per month. Please note that the salary cost can be shown as an hourly rates and monthly salary or annual salary. Then we want to see the duration. In this example, the program advocate will be paid for 12 months, which probably matches the length of the performance period. And then we want to see the full-time equivalent for the position. In this example, the program advocate will work 50% of the time on this program. Then finally, you'll want to include a brief description of the line item and explain how it furthers the goals and objectives of the program. For the benefit calculation, you will need to include the benefit rates. In this example, the rate is 22%. Multiply by the total salaries of all employees in the budget that is receiving benefits. In this example, it's $200,000. And finally, you want to include a brief description of what benefits are included. Unless you're paying the volunteers a salary, you should have it in the operating section. Volunteers are also captured in budget category A. The first element needed is the rates that you have valued your volunteers at. Please know that this rate cannot exceed what it costs your agency to have a staff person doing the same job. And that you can include both salary and benefits when calculating the volunteer rates. In this example, the value of volunteers is $12 per hour. Multiply by the number of hours to be charged to the grants. In this example, 1200 hours. And then include the description of activities the volunteers will be doing. Now we're going to show you a few operating expense examples. Operating volunteers that are being charged for the following per DM gas and mileage should be titled as such as shown on the slide. Title as volunteer, title of what they are being charged for. In this example, they're charging to per DM and the name, number of training they are attending. Again, the elements in the gold bubbles need to be included in each calculation for each line item. In this example, we have postage. The amount for postage is $250 per month multiplied by the duration. In this example, it's 12 months, which probably matches the length of the performance period multiplied by how much of the postage will be charged to the grants. Rents is another very common operating expense for rents. We need to add up the full-time equivalents or FTEs in budget category A, personnel personnel. In this example, we have 4.5 FTEs. Then multiply the 4.5 FTEs by 125 square feet per FTE, which is what is allowed as per the subrecipient handbook. And then multiply that by the amount you pay for rent per square foot. Please note that $2 is the up to amounts and you should use your actual rates and your calculation. If your landlord charges you 65 cents per square foot, that's the rate you need to use. Finally, you will multiply by the duration. In this example, it's 12 months. If you're claiming indirect costs under this award, please make sure you're calculating the total correctly. A common mistake is multiplying the total award amount by the indirect cost rate. That is not how you calculate indirect costs. You will first need to calculate your total direct costs. To do this, you add up any personnel salaries, wages, benefits, operational costs, and up to $25,000 of your second tier subawards. But you do not include any distorting costs such as equipments, rents, capital expenditures, and second tier subawards beyond the first $25,000. In this example, after doing the calculation, they got $233,215. Once you figure out your total direct costs, you simply multiply that by the ICR or the federally approved ICR. In this case, 10%. Please make sure the ICR matches what you entered in section 7 of the face sheets, and that if you are claiming a federally approved ICR, you must include a copy of your approved ICR negotiating agreements in your application. Some final reminders about your budget. Please be sure you refer to the RFP to identify required and prohibited expenses, and that you build your budget accordingly. Be sure to use whole dollar amounts only. Often, when your budget is off by a dollar, it is due to rounding errors. So please be sure you're checking the amounts entered into your budget columns. Please include expenses in the correct category. And lastly, all budget line items require justification and calculation. A request for proposal requires the budget narrative, which allows the subrecipient to provide details about their budget. The budget narrative typically includes how the budget supports objectives and activities, the need for administrative costs, and the necessity for subcontracts. The most common mistake we see with the budget narrative is that sometimes they don't match what's on the budget pages. For example, let's say you submitted your proposal packet, and during our review, your specialist determines that several corrections are needed to your budget pages. You make those changes for your specialist, but now your budget narrative doesn't match. So please remember, every time your budget pages are updated, your budget narrative must be updated as well. They must match. Next is the programmatic narrative, where you provide details about how you will meet the objectives of the program. Please be sure you're reading that your RFP and that your narrative addresses each of the questions from the RFP. We have often seen applicants use the same narrative that they used the previous year, or even perhaps for a different grant that does not address any or all of the questions from the RFP. Next is the grants management assessment form per Title II, CFR Section 200.332. Cal OES is required to evaluate the risks of non-compliance with federal statutes, regulations, grant terms, and conditions posed by each subrecipient of pass-through funding. This assessment is made in order to determine and provide an appropriate level of technical assistance, training, grant oversights to applicants for the award reference above. The questions are related to your organization's experience in management of federal grant awards. This questionnaire must be completed and returned with your grant proposal materials. For purposes of completing this questionnaire, grant manager is the individual who has primary responsibility for day-to-day administration of the grants. Bookkeeper slash accounting staff means the individual who has responsibility for reviewing and determining expenditures to be charged to the grant award. And organization refers to the applicants applying for the award and or the governmental implementing agency as applicable. We just spent a significant amount of time talking about the eight required forms for every request for a proposal. We release, but sometimes additional forms may apply. So please be sure to check part five of your request for proposal to find out if additional forms may apply for your organization. Some final things to remember. All forms have instructions. Use the forms on the website. Those will be the most current version. The checklist that comes with the request for proposal will tell you which forms are required. Email the source grants at the source grants at Cal oes.ca.gov. If you have questions, you are here to help. And lastly, use checklist and part five of the request for proposal. So if you guys have any additional questions, please email any of your questions to listosgrants at Cal oes.ca.gov. We have somebody staffing that inbox all day, every day except for Saturday and Sunday. And so we are responding to those emails as soon as we receive them. If not, it'll be a 24 hour turnaround, but we are trying really hard to answer your questions right away. The only time that it would be a 24 hour turnaround is if we're researching something and we'll let you know that. So please email your questions to that email address. Otherwise, I look forward to seeing everyone's applications and good luck. And again, we are here to assist you on any technical processes on the RFP or the application. So please give us an email and I guess that's it. So thanks for attending today. Goodbye everyone.