Just before dismissing his charges, Gilas Pilipinas women's head coach Patrick Aquino called for a huddle. It wasn't the usual kind where he heaps praises on a player and then offers points of improvement for another. In this one, on a hot steamy Monday afternoon at Aero Center basketball gym in Quezon City, he reached for reminders. "I was telling them how hard it was going out of a certain level," he told the Inquirer. "We don't want to be in that situation again where we had to start from [Division B] again. It was so hard getting up to [this level]. You had to go through so many games and be at the top of a division and then fight out again to [stay there]." Gilas Pil...Keep on reading: Facing tall odds in Olympic qualifier, Gilas women out to protect top-flight status