Reyes in fact, described Gilas' improvement on defense as "night and day" as compared to how they started when they opened the tune-up game with an 81-71 loss to Estonia in the host country's capital city in Tallinn. Chot Reyes PHOTO BY RIO DELUVIO"Definitely we showed improvement. "All the work we put in on perfecting our defense is starting to show." And while the 59-year-old Gilas mentor is happy to see the national team's strides during its close to three weeks Europe training camp, Reyes stressed there's "still a lot of work to be done." Gilas is expected to leave Kaunas, Lithuania soon and make its way back to Manila for a few days off.