WALTHAM, Mass. – The Celtics won Game 1 against Philadelphia Monday night, and they didn’t even need to utilize their full game plan.
That was the intimation that Brad Stevens and Al Horford made Thursday morning ahead of Boston’s shootaround in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The fact that the Celtics led by double-digits for nearly all of the final 29 minutes of the game allowed them to conserve their game plan for Game 2 and beyond. Horford nearly stated that outright by commenting, “During that first game, we didn’t really have to change or go into other plans that we had for that game.