Boston Celtics
Rondo a standout when it comes to preparing for games
08:50 AM EDT on Thursday, April 24, 2008
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.
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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
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