The gap between regular season and playoff basketball is enormous. The scenario in which one team can thoroughly scout the other and implement game-to-game adjustments throughout the two weeks of a series on top of the added intensity and attention to details put forth by the players truly make for a different game.
That alone makes looking back on two teams’ regular season matchups to try and solve the equation of knowing what to expect in a playoff series a questionable task. Add on top of that the weirdness of the Wizards and the Sixers’ three contests and it becomes even more fruitless.