Chris Sload Quotations

What hurt them was the 13-day layoff and they came out rusty. They played like the Scranton teams I've seen before in the second half. They made some changes, but we handled their half-court press well.

People would say that if we played anybody, any of the other 31 teams, that Wyoming Valley West doesn't stand a chance. But we scrimmaged Pocono Mountain East with a 6-9 kid and held our own.

I was concerned that our energy would be used up by that run we had in the second (quarter), because whenever you go on a run and you're down by that much you can get really tired. But Jason hit that three off the bat and that got us right back where we needed to be.

Our kids aren't afraid of anything right now.

Tonight we started to become a better all-around team.

We're very excited. I kind of felt at the time (with Mechanicsburg) it was like the pinnacle for them to just get there. I think this team wants a little more.

I'm proud of our guys. It's the first time they've ever been in this type of situation, and they handled it well.

I really love playing man-to-man defense. But in the fourth, we knew they would have trouble with the zone. We packed it in and, fortunately for us, they couldn't make any jump shots.