After blowout Game 1 loss to Knicks, 76ers confident they have another comeback in them

The Philadelphia 76ers overcame a 3-1 series deficit to defeat the Boston Celtics in the first round of these NBA playoffs.

So you can be sure they’re not panicking after falling into a 1-0 hole in the Eastern Conference semifinals — no matter how lopsided Monday night’s 137-98 loss to the Knicks may have looked.

“We kind of started the Boston series off like this, right?” guard Kelly Oubre Jr. said Tuesday after a film session in Midtown. “But we made adjustments. We got better each and every game, so I expect the same from this series. Only up from here.”

Indeed, the seventh-seeded Sixers suffered a 32-point loss to the second-seeded Celtics in Game 1 of the previous round before making dramatic defensive improvements as that series wore on.

But while the Celtics were shells of themselves by the end of that series — with star forward Jayson Tatum missing Game 7 due to knee stiffness — the third-seeded Knicks are on a historic surge.

Monday’s 39-point victory was the Knicks’ third win in a row by at least 29 points. Never in NBA history had a team won three consecutive playoff games by at least 25 points before that.

The Knicks shot 63.1% from the field — a franchise record for a playoff game — in Game 1, with Jalen Brunson scoring 35 points on 12-of-18 shooting and OG Anunoby adding 18 points on 7-of-8.

“It’s the adversity part of it, and our backs are against the wall,” 76ers rookie guard VJ Edgecombe said Tuesday.

“It’s been like that the whole postseason, so we’ve just got to go and play hard and stay together. We’re going to face adversity. Every team is going to face adversity at some point. Now, we know what we have to do.”

There are obvious areas where the Sixers can improve.

It starts with Joel Embiid, who scored only 14 points on 3-of-11 shooting, and , who finished with 13 points and shot 3-of-9 from the field. That duo averaged a combined 54.9 points per game during the Celtics series.