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Culture accumulates. Good and bad. Like sediment, the longer it sticks in place, the more entrenched it gets in the foundation. After a while, the bad parts of a franchise function less like a parasite and more like a permanent body part.
Gersson Rosas, an analytics-minded GM from the envelope-pushing Houston Rockets, arrived in Minnesota this summer, peppering in a mix of new faces with old, like head coach Ryan Saunders, who got his first shot in the big chair last year after spending five years with the franchise.