Looks like your' on a power phase. Kinda like me, except I might go strength again soon.
You didn't squat heavy like you said you would in your plan on Mondays. I think this is because secretly, you don't "feel" like it. As crazy as it sounds, once you start doing really fast high RFD exercises, the desire to perform slow lifting quickly vanishes. SO I'd stick with jump squats and or 1/2 squats.
However, say you do heavy slow squats Monday. I'll strongly suspect they will in some way screw up your bounding two-three days later, because they create a slow-quad dominant motor pattern, whereas bounding is just so different than lifting it needs to be trained in bulk with the absence of lifting imo. Tell me if I'm wrong though, for me it's just strikingly obvious. For standing bounds, strength training can improve them, but for 3-4 step introduction bounds, it doesn't help at all, even 1 workout can slow me down a little.
This is what I have come to over the past 5-6 months. But more research neesd to be done.
As far as the deadlifts, you can probably maintain it and do it infrequently, once every 3-4 weeks and still see strength gains. Other than that, bounding will work your glutes, but got strength, go with single leg DLs with your back toes on the ground for balance and support, but infrequently, for the RFD issue. Dumbells work fine. I think the cleans though will hit your glutes more than enough.
Heavy: yes, slow: no. When I'm doing them I try to do them as explosively as possible (in fact if I 'stall' coming up then I stop as the weight is too heavy to lift explosively). I don't think it's affected my bounding too much, and the program I based this on (Joel Smith's SLRVJ improvement) calls for bounds sessions after heavy 1/2 squats and box step-ups etc, and it's pretty solid. But I hear what you're saying. I want to get my squat to nearly 2.3-5x BW and when that happens I'll prob focus more on utilising that strength with 1/2, jump, REA squats etc. Not 100% convinced on why strength training woudn't help running bounds in the long run...interested to hear what Raptor thinks.
Good point on the DLs, might try and include SL dumbbell DLs at some point.
(Re not doing heavy squats this week, read above: I'm having a rest/recovery week to try and get some good high jumps in this w/e)
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. I was just off balance and I couldn't consistently do the same movement pattern for 6 reps. I decided just use kettleballs and do them more explosively with better form. I think it was better, will try to improve form with barbell.
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