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DALLAS -- The Dallas Mavericks hired Houston Rockets executive Gersson Rosas as general manager on Monday, filling a spot that technically had been vacant since Don Nelson left the franchise eight years ago. Dallas owner Mark Cuban said in a radio interview that the Mavericks hired the 35-year-old native of Colombia because they "need to get smarter as an organization and we need to really expand what were doing." "We try to take pride in being one of the most technologically advanced teams in all of sports, not just the NBA, and to keep on pushing the envelope in directions that I wanted to go, we needed to not just add brainpower but organizational management and process power," Cuban said. President of basketball operations Donnie Nelson has informally held his fathers old title. Cuban said his own strength is "pushing the envelope," and Nelsons is player evaluation. But he said the team needed someone with "stronger organizational and management skills" and asked Nelson to find someone. Nelson came back with Rosas name. The move was first reported by Yahoo! Sports. Rosas will report to Nelson. He spent nine years with the Rockets, rising from an intern to vice-president of basketball operations. He played a role in shaping the roster for a Houston franchise that beat the Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and Atlanta in the pursuit of free agent centre Dwight Howard. "When we found somebody with that process and management skill like Gersson and also somebody who has experience working with an analytics group, working with a D-League team, working in talent evaluation, that was just an added plus that made him the perfect candidate," Cuban said. Rosas also spent time as general manager of the Rio Grande Vipers, the Rockets developmental team. A decade ago, he was a graduate assistant with the University of Houston mens team. 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The results of the qualifying round are used determine the seedings for the bracketed tournament next week.Of Kims 72 arrows, 52 were in the 10 ring, which is the highest score. He didnt have an arrow score below a nine.Still, he didnt have time to revel in his feat. Theres a team competition the following day and his focus was on medals, not records.Today, it doesnt feel that important, Kim said through a translator.His fellow competitors were impressed enough for him:-Really, really fantastic, David Pasqualucci of Italy said.-He was perfect. Its a big incentive for me, to go further, to go higher and higher, Marcus DAlmeida of Brazil said.-The fact he shot a 700 is amazing, said Brady Ellison of the United States, who finished second in qualifying with a score of 690. Shouldve been five or six points higher, too.In Ellisons opinion, thats because of a creaky surface. There was scaffolding on the ground and on top of that was a thin piece of plywood. It tended to shift each time someone moved in the long line of shooters.Its not enough to really, really hurt you, or enough to make a huge complaint about it. But I do believe it cost the whole field a few points, said Ellison, who combined with teammates Zach Garrett and Jake Kaminski to finish second as a team behind the South Koreans in qualifying. Kims (score) is just really impressive.In womens qualifying, South Koreas Choi Misun was on Olympic-record pace until a breeze picked up in the middle of the competition. She finished with a score of 669, which was slightly ahead of her teammates Chang Hye-JJin (666) and Ki Bo-Bae (663).ddddddddddddThe Olympic mark is held by Ukraines Lina Herasymenko, who scored 673 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Ki has the womens world record of 686, which she set in 2015.We had bad conditions compared to this morning, but the result was good so I have some confidence, said Choi, whose nation has won seven straight Olympic gold medals in the womens team event. We have the best players, we have talent and skill. Its so windy that people can get overwhelmed, but we (did) well in the end.Kim certainly settled into the Sambadrome quite nicely, with the walls making any sort of breeze hardly detectable. There also were newly added Olympic logos on a green backdrop behind the target that gave the archers better depth perception.And Kim took advantage.He opened with a 10 and was just warming up.On his final arrow, he connected on a 10 to beat the previous mark of 699 for 72 arrows set by Im Dong-hyun of South Korea at the 2012 London Games. Im is the visually impaired archer whose story made headlines in London. He didnt make a strong South Korean team for Rio thats obviously led by Kim.I think three years, four years ago, only the compound bow can (score a) 700, Pasqualucci said, alluding to another form of bow used in other competitions but not at the Olympics. Thats not correct now. Its amazing.Kim was the overwhelming favorite heading into the Olympics and did nothing to dispel that belief.Today was just a ranking, said Kim, a two-time individual world champion. Tomorrow the match is more important. Want to focus on tomorrow -- not really be happy today.DAlmeida also is a medal favorite and wound up 34th in qualifying. He insisted the pressure of competing in his backyard doesnt add extra stress.Doesnt make a difference, DAlmeida said. Its difficult everywhere.---Follow AP Sports Writer Pat Graham on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pgraham34 ' ' '