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FIBA World Cup: Serbia coach on Lee’s hard foul — ‘I don’t like dirty players’

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Camille B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/tvpatrol/09/02/20190902-fiba3.jpg"/><figcaption>Coach Sasha Djordjevic says he thought Paul Lee (pictured) intended to hurt Serbia player Marko Guduric, but Yeng Guiao, who questioned how the game was refereed, disagrees. FIBA.basketball</figcaption></figure></div>FOSHAN, China—Serbia coach Sasha Djordjevic was critical of the foul that Paul Lee committed on Marko Guduric in the fourth quarter of their FIBA World Cup game on Monday night, believing that there was &quot;intent to hurt.&quot;Gilas was already well behind Serbia, 101-51, when Lee bumped Guduric as the latter was bringing down the ball with 7:36 to go. After a review, the hit was upgraded to an unsportsmanlike foul, giving Guduric two free throws and bonus possession to Serbia.The Filipinos would absorb a <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/09/02/19/fiba-world-cup-despite-more-dynamic-start-gilas-falls-to-serbia">126-67 defeat</a>, relegating them to the classification phase of the World Cup.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/09/03/19/fiba-world-cup-better-effort-not-enough-as-serbia-simply-too-good-vs-gilas">Better effort not enough, as Serbia simply ‘too good’ vs Gilas</a></li></ul>&quot;I was not (happy),&quot; Djordjevic said when asked about the hard foul. &quot;I don&#x27;t like dirty players. I don&#x27;t like when you have intention, it seemed to me like (there was an) intention to hurt a player.&quot;&quot;I don&#x27;t want my players to be hurt, the second or the third game. That&#x27;s why I was so, so worried. You have to stop that,&quot; he added.The Serbian coach said that he wants his team&#x27;s opponents to &quot;play physically, but tough and fair play.&quot;&quot;That&#x27;s what I ask from my players, and that&#x27;s what I ask from the opponents because this is not the way to treat the opponent,&quot; he added.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/09/02/19/fiba-world-cup-ex-champs-spain-argentina-into-2nd-round">Ex-champs Spain, Argentina into 2nd round</a></li></ul>Gilas coach Yeng Guiao, however, was not convinced that Lee&#x27;s foul qualified as an unsportsmanlike one in the first place.&quot;I don&#x27;t think so. It was a bump. I guess if you wanted to hurt somebody, that&#x27;s not the only thing that you can do,&quot; he said.Moreover, Guiao expressed his belief that &quot;a lot of the calls&quot; went Serbia&#x27;s way. There were many instances during the game that the Gilas Pilipinas bench got up in arms over a call; Andray Blatche was in foul trouble all throughout the contest.&quot;We couldn&#x27;t understand a lot of the calls,&quot; said Guiao. &quot;At saka, I felt that they took away our momentum. The early fouls on Blatche, then a lot of touch fouls. Touch fouls. I couldn&#x27;t understand.&quot;&quot;So there are referees worse than the PBA refs.&quot;<div>For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</div>

Coach Sasha Djordjevic says he thought Lee intended to hurt Serbia player Marko Guduric, but Yeng Guiao, who questioned how the game was refereed, disagrees.

Coach Sasha Djordjevic says he thought Lee intended to hurt Serbia player Marko Guduric, but Yeng Guiao, who questioned how the game was refereed, disagrees.

FIBA World Cup: Serbia coach on Lee’s hard foul — ‘I don’t like dirty players’

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FIBA World Cup: Serbia coach on Lee’s hard foul — ‘I don’t like dirty players’

Camille B. Naredo,

ABS-CBN News

Published September 03, 2019 01:00 AM PHT

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