tribecalledquest wrote:tdawgs87 wrote:Where are you hearing that ? Source ? If true that will totally kill any hope that Mullins will get SIU back to respectability, especially IF Domask were to leave.
From some people who would know in STL. It isn't a done deal. But I would say Lance Jones in particular is growing a bit tired of playing in one of the slowest paced offenses in college basketball and then also being a bottom division MVC team while doing it.
Jones has enough trouble keeping his turnovers under control in a slower-tempo offense; would hate to see what they'd look like playing more helter-skelter.
Assuming Jones stays, Southern will try to bring in a transfer PG and move him more off the ball, as having the ball in Jones' hands so much these past few years has made it evident that he would be better suited to focusing on scoring/ball-hawking on defense rather than running the show. He's just not much of a creator for others and his decision-making at times does not lend itself to championship-level basketball.
As for Domask, he finished the year strong ... if he'd have played the way he did the last few weeks the whole way through, he likely would have been a First-Teamer.
I do expect both Domask and Jones to stay, but obviously you never know in this era. Mullins deserves some critiquing for the lukewarm results and sluggish offense, but one thing he has done is build a healthy culture with good kids who appear to be bought in. Now it's time to bring in some more scoring punch and retool the offense for what will (hopefully) be Domask and Jones' senior seasons in Carbondale.
