Oisin McConville has been impressed by Monaghan's basketball tactics.

Reflecting on the Ulster final, the former Armagh forward noticed that both the Farney County and Donegal borrowed a lot of their strategy from the American sport:

"I have long been a big fan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team. Their flamboyant style, all-round athleticism and unerring accuracy never fail to impress me," he writes in The Belfast Telegraph.

"Indeed, basketball as a sport holds special appeal for me because of its inherent skills and constant momentum.

"Yet never for a moment did I ever envisage that I would see some of the aspects of that particular sport replicated in gaelic football - until now, that is.

"As I watched the Ulster final between Donegal and Monaghan unfurl, I became more and more convinced that gaelic football and basketball now have more in common than ever."

"In Clones last Sunday [week], we watched both games engage in what appeared to be interminable hand-passing, often at the expense of conceding territory, and place a strong emphasis on zonal defence to restrict the opposition."

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