Michael Brown savoured one of the greatest comebacks in BBL history, then put it down to hard work on the practice court.

The Bears guard was a key figure in the awesome defensive effort which saw Bears keep out Milton Keynes Lions for almost seven minutes at the end of last Sunday's Conference tussle at The Triangle.

At the other end, Bears scored 18 points to clinch an unlikely 79-78 win.

It was the latest example of the tigerish defensive work which has formed the foundation of their improved results this season.

Brown believes it is a case of practice making perfect. He said: "We challenge each other in practice day in day out and that helps us. We practice at the level we play at so it's easy to transfer it into games.

"As a team we are pretty good. Everybody is on the same page and everybody is rotating.

"If you look at the Milton Keynes game and the last maybe seven possessions, I was matched up with Andrew Alleyne at one particular time, I challenged his shot and somebody else helped me out.

"We are all playing for each other. If someone makes a certain play, someone else will be there to back them up."

They certainly stifled the Lions in Sunday's closing stages, supplying enough chances for Bears to snatch victory, even though not all their shots were dropping.

Victory came hot on the heels of Saturday's Trophy stroll at Leicester, in which Brown fired seven three-pointers, and completed their first double winning weekend of the season.

Brown said: "Sunday was unbelievable. We felt we needed some stops. Milton Keynes are a very slow team and that works to their advantage but, in the last five minutes, we started coming back and got it to about six. From that point on we knew we could win the game.

"After beating Leicester the coach was talking about how we had never won back to back games on a weekend.

"We talked about it at half-time on Sunday and he just re-emphasised that we needed the double victory.

"It was nip and tuck. In the last three plays Mark Jackson tipped a rebound and I grabbed that ball. That's the ideal situation when you've got your guards rebounding big time possessions.

"That's one thing that is different to my past years at Brighton. You don't have so much emphasis on one guy needing to score 40.

"In the last few games I have tended to have eight to ten boards and to me that is contributing because every board I get can be worth two points.

"My role this year is to do whatever it takes to win. Against Leicester on Saturday I had 21 points, then against Milton Keynes I only had two but I had eight boards. As long as we win that's all I'm really interested in."

Fans were delighted to see the man they once dubbed Downtown Mike Brown back on target from outside the arc at Leicester, but the player himself is also fiercely proud of his reputation as a hustler.

He said: "I've always been a defensive player. Most of the times when we are playing teams with really good guards I'm up for the challenge. You've got Kimbrough, Rod Brown, Terrell Myers, top names. I take it as a challenge every night when I come up against them as a defensive player."

Coach Nick Nurse said the Milton Keynes win followed the same sort of script normally reserved for Rocky movies and was delighted to serve up a first memorable match for the Burgess Hill crowd this season.

For travelling Lions fans, Sunday's collapse might have brought back bad memories of last season, when they lost at the Trangle having led by 14.

It was also the second time this season Bears had defended a one-point lead in the last 20 seconds to beat Lions.