Hey, don't look now, but Neda Mint is starting to figure it out, and boy, the SEC should be on notice.

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Go check out the great people over at Fandall today this weekend and of course next weekend as well. Doing something a little bit different today. Going to be hoops heavy on this Friday, okay? This show is going to be hoops heavy. You're going to tell by Nate A. Mint, another great performance, Georgia win in overtime. What he did, what Tennessee did dominating the boards. Rick Barnes picks up a signature win, a milestone win, if you will. Caleb Jaro is going to come on, talk about the men and the Lady Valls. Hot start in SEC play are the Lady Valls. And then, of course, you got Chris Gordy coming up. He did a sit-down chat with Philip Fulmer last week, and I want to play parts of that conversation right here on Lockdown Balls from Lockdowne's Chris Gordy. All that and more here on this this show later this afternoon. I'm going to catch up with Zach Blackerby, do a little locked on crossover, getting you set for Tennessee and Auburn tomorrow with Stephen Pearl. It should be pretty exciting in that regard. All that and more coming up here today on lockdown balls. And let's jump down into it, man. Hey, Native Mint, he's starting to figure it out.

We talked a little bit about Native Mint a lot here on the show.

And earlier in the season, it was more frustration.

Fans not quite understanding.

You have all this hype, so overrated.

He's not producing.

And, hey, he's still making freshman mistakes. The other night

against Georgia, he still had a inbound violation, right? I mean, it was the whole, since it was a

dead ball turnover or whatever, you can't move on the baseline when you're inbounding the ball,

because if you can make the basket, you can move, but if anything but that, you can't move.

And that's just a freshman mistake.

And he's had a couple of five-second violations.

You know, we're trying to end-bound the basketball.

That's been a big part of his game that he's trying to grow.

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