BOSTON - One player the Celtics aren’t worried about in the game-preparation department is second-year point guard Rajon Rondo. Armond Hill, the assistant coach who was a star guard at Princeton back in the 1970s, has taken Rondo under his wing ever since he came into the league out of the University of Kentucky.

Rondo says he began watching film and studying scouting reports since he was a high school star in Louisville. That work ethic continues in the pros.

“Rondo and Kevin would be the top two, but Rondo, by far, is the film-watcher on the team,” said Celtics coach Doc Rivers. “I was really impressed with him at the first practice going into the playoffs. We would introduce a [Hawks] play and before we’d put a name to it, Rondo was calling ‘three-up, four-down.’ You don’t see that very often.”

-KEVIN McNAMARA