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Joel Embiid on loss: 76ers played poorly, Boston crowd noise 'OK'

BOSTON -- Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid didn't like what he saw from himself or his team in their Game 1 loss to the Boston Celtics.

"It starts on defense. I thought I was s---ty. I thought we were all bad tonight," Embiid said after the Sixers allowed Boston to hit 17 threes in a 16-point defeat. "That's not who we are, definitely. I think when everybody's on, we're the best defensive team in the game. There's a lot of stuff that we game planned that we didn't execute."

Philadelphia allowed the undermanned Celtics to shoot 49 percent from beyond the arc in a lopsided loss to open their second-round series.