I accidentally found a fun little story written about a year ago by a lifelong Rockets fan about his love for the team, and the time he sent Pete Chilcutt a congratulatory note with $1.10 in cash. Full article here.
OK, who on the board wrote that letter as a kid to Chilcutt. The article even uses "sneakily-athletic" @Carl Herrera btw: not just a "glue" guy: On March 28th, 1995, due to Hakeem getting injured for 9 games (leading up to the now famous '95 title run), Rudy Tomjanovich turned Pete Chilcutt into the first starting, Stretch 4 in NBA history. That tactic was immediately tested due to Carl Herrera going down facing a schedule of Karl Malone first round, Charles Barkley 2nd round and Dennis Rodman WCF. It worked so well, Rudy T increasingly game Robert Horry more minutes there vs Rodman/Spurs matchup and moving him to starter in Game 6, and the rest was history as Rockets won 6 games in a row against Rodman/DRob and Horace Grant/Shaq. That kid Pat saw something in Pete after the '94 title, when most of us weren't talking about him. Of course, the league shortening the 3pt line in 94-95 had a little to do with Rudy planning for this. fwiw: Sam Perkins was a starting Stretch 5 that year, when the league shortened the 3pt line in '94-95. For whatever reason, Seattle did bench Perkins midway through the season. Possibly one of the mistakes against Dikembe's infamous 1st round, sweep-upset, which they tried to fix by having him start Game 3, 4 to no avail.
