Billy Donovan: Individual Skill Development within Your Offense

The principle of breaking down your offense is shown really well here, as well to get post and perimeter players open. The downside is that unless you're running the Florida primary break into this offense a lot of the specifics shown and talked about aren't quite as useful.

There is one drill for posts passing back out to the wing that was interesting. Other than this there are no other drills really. Most of this is shown as 3 and 4 vs 0, until in the last 10 minutes when a defense is thrown in.

This is less about individual skills then about how to efficiently run this specific offense and get players doing the right thing. Some of the principles and teaching points do have value, but again this isn't a generalized set of principles but very specific to this offense.

The dvd is listed as 70 minutes on the back but is only 57 minutes, which is a bit disappointing. There is also U of Florida footage dispersed throughout the video, which is ok but not necessary. I like of lot of Billy Donovan's other videos, but this is a miss for me - just too specific and not enough takeaways I thought. 3/5 stars.

Great DVD! Coach Donovan does an incredible job of demonstrating the importance of breaking down your offense into small segments to emphasize each player's role within the offense. He insists on running through your offense after some movement (3-man weave) in order to simulate the chaos and flow of a real game situation. The only downside to this DVD is that it only runs for 57 mins. (not 70 mins). All in all a great instructional tool that will help your team better understand your offense.