Dublin manager Jim Gavin has asked basketball coach Mark Ingle to help him crack the blanket defence code.

The Irish Independent reports that Ingle, who is one of the most recognisable faces in Irish basketball circles, has been working with the Dublin footballers in recent times.

His brief is to try to give them a better understanding of how offensive and defensive gameplans work through the use of screening and zonal defence.

Drills include movements and strategies to get the ball to a team's most dangerous player and making attacking players race back and engage in a defensive approach.

Ingle has worked with the extremely successful DCU Mercy outfit in recent years.

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