{"id":748027,"date":"2026-05-30T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/748027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:39:14","slug":"central-notes-altman-mitchell-suter-pistons-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/748027\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Notes: Altman, Mitchell, Suter, Pistons Free Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman doesn\u2019t think the roster needs major changes after his team got swept by New York in the conference finals, according to Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody is aligned in where we want to get to,\u201c Altman said. \u201dWe all know we need to dig deep to take that next step. I always say two things can be true. We hated the way it ended. We were disappointed with the way it ended. I think the reason for that is we have higher expectations. ,,. We believe in the players that we have in house. It\u2019s been a long road to get here. It\u2019s been five years of sustained success, and we\u2019re still doing this [gradually improving], but we have to figure out how we break through it one more time, and that\u2019s going to be the most difficult step.\u201d<\/p>\n

How they make that step is up for discussion among the front office.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last five years, we\u2019ve retooled this roster, added to this roster. We\u2019ve looked internally. We\u2019ve grown internally. We\u2019re operating at a position of real strength in terms of our foundation,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think those discussions happen now. Do we have enough? Do we add around the edges? This is certainly not a place where we\u2019re like, \u2018We need to blow this up and start again.\u2019 That\u2019s certainly not where we\u2019re at. But those discussions will happen. But certainly, internally right now, there\u2019s more that we have that we can get to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from the Central Division:<\/p>\n

In the last installment of his Andscape diary via Marc J.\u00a0 Spears<\/a>, Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell<\/a> admits that getting swept was a difficult way to go out this season. \u201cIt was a very painful ending. To go out like that, you try to put on a smile and try to move past it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019ll take a little bit. The worst part about it is just the sweep. We had an opportunity, right? It was right there. I\u2019m saying we go ahead and win the series. Whatever happens, happens. But when you have an opportunity, man, and you watch it go past, that\u2019s killer. And at the end with the 35-, whatever it was, point loss. That s\u2011\u2011\u2011, I don\u2019t really know how else to describe it. But that\u2019s one of the things. It don\u2019t matter all the success we\u2019ve had. Yeah, it\u2019s great. But when you lose like that, it\u2019s tough.\u201d
\nPeter Suder<\/a>, who hails from Carmel, Ind., visited the Pacers practice facility for a draft workout on Thursday. Suder averaged 14.8 points and 4.0 assists for Miami (Ohio) last season. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely surreal,\u201d Suder said to Dustin Dopirak of the Indianapolis Star<\/a>. \u201c(Growing up) 30 minutes away from this facility, it\u2019s just crazy. It\u2019s always been a dream growing up, especially being an Indiana fan, a Pacers fan. All my friends, family back at home, they\u2019re all rooting for me to go to the Pacers, so it\u2019s just a surreal feeling.\u201d Indiana currently doesn\u2019t have a pick in the draft.
\nKevin Huerter<\/a> is the only significant Pistons free agent who is likely to leave, Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press<\/a> predicts. He believes the team will reach agreements with RFA Jalen Duren<\/a>, Tobias Harris<\/a> and Javonte Green<\/a> and exercise its option on Daniss Jenkins<\/a>\u2018 contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman doesn\u2019t think the roster needs major changes after his team got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,6101,296,188,3860,864,912,13154,4103,11986,6,74820,297,933],"class_list":["post-748027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-basketball","tag-daniss-jenkins","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-jalen-duren","tag-javonte-green","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-koby-altman","tag-nba","tag-peter-suder","tag-pistons","tag-tobias-harris"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116664281573204668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}