HoopsIL.com preseason awards, part 1

[Da Coach]

HoopsIL.com has their Preseason awards, part I--

http://hoopsil.com/2008/10/2008-09-preseason-awards-part-1/

Top Shooter- this one I am a little puzzled by. They pick a kid who has never taken a shot yet for ISU, Chamberlain Oguchi.
His stats his junior year at Oregon were not pretty--
52 for 166 (.313) overall, and 29-112 (.259) from three. Those numbers are absolutely horrible for a "shooting guard", but his Pac-10 Conference stats were even worse! In conference he shot 25-83 (.301) overall, and 13-57 (.228 ) from three.

Top defender went to Dodie Dunson, who also has never played yet.--
Top Defender: Dodie Dunson’s combination of strength, quickness, speed, and IQ help him to lock down defenders. When at Iowa State, Dunson was often assigned to the opponents best defender and did a very good job holding Big XII stars under their averages. He should be even better in the Valley.

[saluki762]

HoopsIL.com has their Preseason awards, part I--

http://hoopsil.com/2008/10/2008-09-preseason-awards-part-1/

Top Shooter- this one I am a little puzzled by. They pick a kid who has never taken a shot yet for ISU, Chamberlain Oguchi.
His stats his junior year at Oregon were not pretty--
52 for 166 (.313) overall, and 29-112 (.259) from three. Those numbers are absolutely horrible for a "shooting guard", but his Pac-10 Conference stats were even worse! In conference he shot 25-83 (.301) overall, and 13-57 (.228 ) from three.

Top defender went to Dodie Dunson, who also has never played yet.--
Top Defender: Dodie Dunson??™s combination of strength, quickness, speed, and IQ help him to lock down defenders. When at Iowa State, Dunson was often assigned to the opponents best defender and did a very good job holding Big XII stars under their averages. He should be even better in the Valley.

I have no idea where they come up with this stuff. I am as excited as any Saluki fan for this years recruiting class but to have someone listed as top playmaker (Dillard) who has never played a minute of DI hoops seems crazy. If he is the top playmaker in Illinois. SIU will be a lot better than anyone is anticipating.

Also Mullins is the best defender in the state.

[thefish7]

Saluki762-- I haven't heard anything lately... What's the status of Mullins' injury? Is he able to practice or play?

[saluki762]

Saluki762-- I haven't heard anything lately... What's the status of Mullins' injury? Is he able to practice or play?

Am am unfortunately not in the Carbondale area. I can only go by what salukitalk says. Tornado seems to have that covered.

[thefish7]

Well that's good for Mullins. As a Bradley fan, I have to both hate and respect the guy.

Hate to see any athlete losing time to injury, so hope he can put that all behind him.

[SaintLouBrave22]

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However there were several comments about how he simply couldn't hit a shot, and in one 3-pt contest with nobody guarding him, he hit only 3 of 15 attempts.

True but Mullins has never really been much of a 3pt shooter...

If he's shooting a lot of them then they're in more trouble than they thought

[SaintLouBrave22]

Mullins got hot and shot very well for the entire 2nd half of last seaosn, his junior year.
His numbers in the MVC conference games were actually pretty impressive...

36-75, 48.0%, a FULL 15% percentage points better than anyone else on the Saluki team!

http://www.mvc.org/mbb/stats/SIU.HTM

The next closest guy was Clemmons (13-40, 32.5%)!!

Yeah...but do you really expect that to continue?

[saluki762]

Yeah...but do you really expect that to continue?

I will go out on a limb and say it shouldn't have to. We should actually have some people who can shoot the ball this year.

[SaintLouBrave22]

I will go out on a limb and say it shouldn't have to. We should actually have some people who can shoot the ball this year.

Honestly I hope so....the conference isn't going to be helped if SIU is bad...plus it makes me feel much better when you're good when we beat you

[saluki762]

Honestly I hope so....the conference isn't going to be helped if SIU is bad...plus it makes me feel much better when you're good when we beat you