Ryan Saunders' popularity with Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor and players helped get him the full-time coaching job, but now he'll have to produce.
It’s fine to give new Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations Gersson Rosas credit for hiring Ryan Saunders as the team’s next head coach, but don’t leave owner Glen Taylor out of the picture.
Before Rosas was hired, good sources of mine were saying the players were so pro-Saunders and that Taylor was such a big booster of the 33-year-old that it was likely he would be hired.