Dennis Rodman today said farewell to his Genesis Brighton Bears colleagues - for now - and offered them his top tip success in basketball - don't think about the game too much.

Rodman played his part as Bears, led by the flair of Terrance McGee, Jerry Williams and Steve Parillon, scored an outstanding win at Palace.

Asked what advice he had given his team mates during his two-day, two-game stint as a Bear, Rodman, who was in good form for the press, said: "Remember it's an easy game.

"Keep it simple. Don't ever think. Once you start to think, that's when you screw up."

Rodman hopes that philosophy will ease him back into the NBA but he fears he has foes in high places.

And that could be great news for Brighton. He said: "I have the highest percentage of winning in NBA history.

"Michael Jordan don't have that, Larry Bird don't have that, Bill Russell don't have that, I do.

"But me and (NBA commissioner) David Stern don't get along.

"I've been trying to get back in the NBA and he's blocked it so many times.

"I was supposed to go to the New York Knicks summer camp, he blocked that.

"I was supposed to go to Denver, he blocked that.

"For some reason he doesn't want me back in the NBA "He thinks it will be Dennis, Dennis, Dennis.

"So if I can come over here and entertain you guys and win a Championship, I could do that."

Rodman was a good team player last night.

Starting again in the absence of Andrew Alleyne, he went man-to-man on Lynard Stewart and stole the ball away from him to enable McGee to go end-to-end and open Bears' early lead.

Martin Yabsley got inside for two to extend the advantage to 26-16 in the first period.

And Demaija Stewart, getting through good work at both ends, drew appreciation from Rodman with an and-one to restore the double-digit buffer early in the second period.

Rodman tipped in a Parillon shot for his first points and later added an open jump shot to give Bears their biggest lead at 43-26.

Towers wasted seven secondquarter free throws, most surprisingly when dead-eye Chez Marks failed to punish Demaija Stewart's technical foul.

And Bears ended the half on a high as Towers forward Mike New was called for his fourth foul and Daniel Hildreth hit a three to give Bears a 57-43 edge.

New fouled out early in the third, just after Bears had gone on a 9-2 tear, and the visitors were coasting from then.

The lead hit 25 points at 78-53 with 3:22 to go in the third period and Rodman opened the fourth with a lovely assist for Williams.

What happened from there disproved the theory that Rodman should have been brought in for exhibition games rather than league battles.

The fourth quarter turned into an exhibition, highlighted by a fabulous reverse dunk by Demaija Stewart.

But Rodman had lost interest by then and was resting his knees on the bench.

The man does not do friendlies.

But what a competitor. And what a showman.