BOSTON \u2014\u00a0The Sixers certainly did not breeze through their film session Monday.<\/p>\n
In the wake of a 32-point playoff-opening loss<\/a> to the Celtics, head coach Nick Nurse said the team watched Game 1 \u201cin its entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got to look at what\u2019s there,\u201d Nurse said following his team\u2019s practice at Harvard University. \u201cObviously, it was pretty painful to watch. There were a lot of things that we didn\u2019t do very well and a lot of things out of character. So it was long. Lots to look at, lots to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n Entering the playoffs, multiple Sixers had highlighted the importance of \u201cattention to detail.\u201d The team had a rough Sunday in that regard.<\/p>\n The Sixers\u2019 defense was nowhere near its disruptive best and Boston\u2019s star duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown combined for 51 points before subbing out for the non-competitive fourth quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt was more so a lot of miscommunications, not being on the same page altogether,\u201d Quentin Grimes said. \u201cNothing crazy, but we\u2019ve just got to be on the same page for 48 minutes. \u2026 We watched that and we\u2019ve got a good feel for how can play tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n The Game 1 film was full of frustrating misses. <\/p>\n The Sixers were 0 for 12 on three-pointers classified by NBA.com as \u201cwide open\u201d<\/a> (closest defender six or more feet away). And, according to Cleaning the Glass, they shot just 12 for 22 (54.5 percent) at the rim.<\/a> The Celtics were 16 for 18.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a make-or-miss league,” Justin Edwards said. \u201cThe basketball Gods weren\u2019t on our side. I expect them to be on our side tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n While greater precision with Nurse\u2019s schemes and sharper in-game adjustments will be necessary Tuesday, some of the Sixers\u2019 problems in Game 1 were obviously intangible.<\/p>\n Andre Drummond believes the team will have a better, more focused collective mindset in Game 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTake some pressure off ourselves,\u201d Drummond said. \u201cI think we were so excited to be out there that we made little mistakes we normally wouldn\u2019t make. We were hesitant on shots that we normally aren\u2019t hesitant taking. Not that anybody\u2019s nervous or scared, I think we\u2019re just so excited to have made it this far and be a part of something bigger than ourselves compared to what happened last year. I think just those jitters kind of took over.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think we\u2019re going to be fine. \u2026 A lot of the mistakes we made, we can control. So just be prepared. We watched film for a little while today, so we understand what needs to be changed and we\u2019re ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n The Sixers\u2019 hope is that their thorough review of Game 1 leads to a much different Game 2 performance.<\/p>\n \u201cWe needed that,\u201d Drummond said. \u201cWe could\u2019ve just come here, walked through our sets and prepared for tomorrow. But I think physically watching what we did to kind of beat ourselves, things we could\u2019ve done better and could\u2019ve done more \u2026 it was very long and very detailed. There\u2019s a lot of things we wrote on the board that we need to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we\u2019re ready, I think we\u2019re prepared. \u2026 Regardless of what the score was, I think we needed to get that game under our belt to kind of feel what the atmosphere is going to be, and I think we\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n The latest on Embiid<\/p>\n On the injury front, Joel Embiid (appendectomy recovery) was still the one player listed as out for either side going into Game 2. The Celtics listed Ron Harper Jr. as probable with a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n