Polish League Quarterfinals, Games 4-5: April 21-25, 2008
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PGE Turow Zgorzelec, Asco Slask Wroclaw and Polpak Swiecie made it to the Polish League semifinals by surviving their respective best-of-five quarterfinal playoff series against Kotwica Kolobrzeg, Atlas Stal Ostrow and Anwil Wloclawek. Turow swept its quarterfinal series by topping Kotwica 62-71 in Game 3 on Monday. Thomas Kelati paced the winners with 21 points while Slobodan Ljubotina added 11 for Turow, that are still without Robert Witka and David Logan. Turow overcame an early double-digit deficit and used an outstanding Kelati in the fourth quarter to stay ahead in the final minutes. Slask also advanced to the semifinals by downing Ostrow 75-85 to win its series 3-1. Rashid Atkins led the winners with 21 points, Andrius Giedraitis and Jared Homan each added 16 while Dominik Tomczyk had 13 for Slask, that led 39-53 at halftime and managed to control the game until the final buzzer. Meanwhile, Polpak completed its rally from a 2-0 deficit to win its series against Anwil 2-3. In Game 4, Polpak edged Anwil 75-73 behind 18 points from Bobby Dixon and 16 from Eric Hicks. Alex Dunn had 18 points for Anwil, Andrzej Pluta added 15, Patrick Okafor and Lukasz Koszarek each had 12 while Vladimir Petrovic got 10 for the guests. Polpak completed its rally with a 66-82 road win against Anwil in Game 5. Dixon paced the winners with 17 points while Chris Garner added 15. Petrovic had 17 points for Anwil, Koszarek added 15 and Pluta 11. The semifinals will be Turow - Slask and Prokom Trefl Sopot - Polpak.
| Quarterfinal Playoffs, best of 5 games |
| Record | Team | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | | 3 | PGE Turow (1) | 79 | 69 | 71 | x | x | | 0 | Kotwica (9) | 73 | 62 | 62 | x | x | | 3 | ASCO Slask (4) | 80 | 84 | 71 | 85 | x | | 1 | Atlas Stal (5) | 85 | 75 | 63 | 75 | x | | 3 | Prokom Trefl (2) | 82 | 84 | 91 | x | x | | 0 | Koszalin (7) | 74 | 65 | 66 | x | x | | 2 | Anwil (3) | 75 | 74 | 72 | 73 | 66 | | 3 | Polpak (6) | 74 | 56 | 78 | 75 | 82 |
| Quarterfinal games | | Game 1 | PGE Turow vs. Kotwica | 79-73 | April 16 | | Game 1 | Prokom Trefl vs. Koszalin | 82-74 | April 16 | | Game 1 | Anwil vs. Polpak | 75-74 | April 16 | | Game 1 | ASCO Slask vs. Atlas Stal | 80-85 | April 16 | | Game 2 | PGE Turow vs. Kotwica | 69-62 | April 17 | | Game 2 | Prokom Trefl vs. Koszalin | 84-65 | April 17 | | Game 2 | Anwil vs. Polpak | 74-56 | April 17 | | Game 2 | ASCO Slask vs. Atlas Stal | 84-75 | April 17 | | Game 3 | Kotwica vs. PGE Turow | 62-71 | April 21 | | Game 3 | Koszalin vs. Prokom Trefl | 66-91 | April 20 | | Game 3 | Polpak vs. Anwil | 78-72 | April 20 | | Game 3 | Atlas Stal vs. ASCO Slask | 63-71 | April 20 | | Game 4 | Polpak vs. Anwil | 75-73 | April 21 | | Game 4 | Atlas Stal vs. ASCO Slask | 75-85 | April 21 | | Game 5 | Anwil vs. Polpak | 66-82 | April 24 |
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