“It's not so much we need to come down and take a shot in the first six seconds. But what we need to do is initiate our offense in the first four or five seconds, so we have some time to work off each other and we have more time on the clock to do more things.”

American basketball coach and former player

Billy Donovan is an American basketball coach and former player, born in 1965. He is known for his long coaching career in the college game and the NBA, as well as for leading the Florida Gators to national titles. Donovan coached at the University of Florida from 1996 to 2015, where his teams won consecutive NCAA championships in 2006 and 2007 and reached the championship game in 2000. He later coached the Chicago Bulls and is now a lead assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs. In 2025, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.