Reggie talked to me about not being a complementary player, but being a hero.

On one hand, it was deflating for the Kings to be receiving the bulk of their offense from two complementary players.

Strickland and Richmond were once thought to be complementary players who could put a good team over the top.

All he needed then, all he would ever need, were the complementary players to make him look good.

Hackett was always a very complementary player, so the combination works well".

But each played on a great team, or at least had a great complementary player.

"We can't just add complementary players to our non-free agents and think that we're there," Phillips said.

Anderson felt that the pressure on Houston should make complementary players like himself more valuable.

This season Mark Jackson, the senior 6-3 guard, has come through, but the complementary players have been uneven.

"But they'll be good complementary players for us."