It's too soon to get cocky, and I was surprised by how easily we won without Brown, but it was strange to see how little attention was given to Philly's red flags as a playoff team.
The biggest being Simmons' and Embiid's youth and playoff inexperience, but they're also very dependent on controlling pace and getting open 3s, and we're pretty good at preventing that. They have a bunch of mediocre wings that are mostly just out there for spacing, and no real perimeter stopper on D. The bench is...mediocre shooting wings and not much else. Take away the 3s and they don't have much flexibility to adjust styles. Plus we generally rolled them in the regular season.
All that said they still could beat us in our depleted state. But perceptions before the series just seemed much more dismal than the matchup warranted.