With three minutes left, Iceland was leading 73-70 over Poland, and an upset for the hosts of Group D seemed possible. The game ended with Poland getting the 84-75 win and practically making it to the Round of 16, and left Iceland’s coach Craig Pedersen with a bitter taste.

“I’m not so much disappointed with the loss as much as how it ends”, he explained, talking to Icelandic media “ Visir “, and he didn’t hold back talking about the referees.

As he said: “I think it’s BS. They are getting all these foul shots out of f… nothing. They are calling us for flopping, but then they flop, and then we get the foul. I think enough is enough, I think it’s overboard, I think things are not being refed evenly. Poland played a great game and won. Fine, I’m not disappointed with that. I’m disappoi

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