Facing tall odds in Olympic qualifier, Gilas women out to protect top-flight status

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].”

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