Minnesota Timberwolves: Grading GM Gersson Rosas’s tenure

Minnesota Timberwolves general manager Gersson Rosas has had nothing short of an eventful tenure so far – about two years after being hired away from Daryl Morey’s staff for the then-Houston Rockets.

As GM, Rosas has made a plethora of trades, overturning the roster entirely (with the exception of only two players). That level of turnaround is a feat – for better or worse. As general manager, Rosas has: made nine major trades and several consequential draft selections.

Of course, grading Gersson Rosas’s time thus far in Minnesota may not be accurate several months (or even years) from now – it’s an interesting exercise to track year-by-year, especially with the level of activity that the Minnesota Timberwolves have maintained while he has been in the front office.

From both an internal and external perspective, Gersson Rosas has been a busy man over the course of the past two years – creating a roster that fits both his and his coaching hire’s (Chirs Finch) vision – an offensive-minded team that runs through elbow touches to Karl-Anthony Towns and pick-and-roll activity from D’Angelo Russell.

The only two players leftover from the pre-Rosas era are Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Okogie – and Okogie may not be in Minnesota for much longer, as the last year of his contract is in 2021-22.

I am going to grade several aspects of Rosas’s job in this piece: the coaching hire, draft picks, and trades. Again, as it is only his second year on the job – these are typically very fluid and subject to change based on how picks/trades progress.