Brighton Bears welcome back rising star Jan Trojanowski for their double header against Chester Jets and Derby Storm this weekend.

Trojanowski missed last Saturday's 89-75 defeat against Sheffield Sharks in the quarter finals of the National Cup as he had to return to Poland following a death in the family.

Bears clash in the uniball trophy against Chester is the third to take place at the Triangle, Burgess Hill, and 6'7" Londoner Michael Martin, recently signed from London Leopards, comes in for his home debut.

Brighton opened their trophy challenge with a narrow 76-67 defeat against Sheffield at the Brighton Centre before making hard work of beating NBL Division I team Plymouth 83-77 at the Triangle.

Tomorrow's game takes on extra significance as Bears and Jets are battling with Sheffield to gain a quarter final spot in Group D, and Chester are hoping to parade their new American centre Clarence Tyson.

Tyson, 29, a native of Dallas, joins Chester following a stint in Australia and he comes in as a replacement for Correy Childs.

Trojanowski's absence has given him time to fully recover from a foot injury that has been troubling him in recent weeks and he believes his team would have learned much from their defeats against Sheffield.

Brighton have lost three times to the Sharks in their last four games and Trojanowski also feels their lacklustre last victory over Plymouth should act as a valuable lesson to the new look side.

He explained "There was an element of us feeling the Plymouth game would be an easy one. We might have felt that just because they are in a lower division we could turn up and things would happen.

"You just can't do that. You have to come out every night and play. We're not good enough basically to just come out and go through the motions. We're making sure we fix certain aspects and try to get things to work a bit better."

Trojanowski, whose starting spot went to Jon Gaines against Sheffield last weekend, is certain the understanding between them will improve.

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