{"id":839084,"date":"2026-09-19T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/839084\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:33:13","slug":"pistons-notes-duren-thompson-holland-harris-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/839084\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Notes: Duren, Thompson, Holland, Harris, Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Dana Gauruder<\/a> |
\n at September 19, 2026 10:30 am <\/p>\n

The Pistons took care of one of their biggest issues this offseason, agreeing<\/a> to a five-year contract extension with defensive star wing Ausar Thompson<\/a>. One major piece of unfinished business remains \u2014 ending the standoff with restricted free agent center Jalen Duren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to The Athletic\u2019s Hunter Patterson<\/a>, Detroit\u2019s brass remains confident that it will eventually reach a long-term agreement with Duren. The Pistons reportedly offered<\/a> the big man in the neighborhood of $190MM over five years.<\/p>\n

The Pistons have resisted any sign-and-trade scenarios regarding Duren, whose only leverage is to sign his $9.6MM qualifying offer and then become an unrestricted free agent next offseason.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Pistons:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some urgency for the Pistons to get Duren signed with training camp approaching, according to the Detroit Free Press\u2019 Omari Sankofa<\/a>, even if it\u2019s a shorter term deal. While the club could push the deadline for Duren to sign the qualifying offer as late as March 1, there\u2019s little incentive for the Pistons to allow negotiations to go into the season, Sankofa adds.
\nThompson plans to take a more determined approach on the offensive end, Thompson told Sankofa (Twitter link<\/a>). \u201cI see myself being a lot more aggressive \u2026 touching the paint and collapsing the defense, plus everything I do already on defense. I think that\u2019s a hell of a player,\u201d he said. Thompson averaged 9.9 points in 73 games last season while attempting 7.9 shots per contest. Only 24 of his attempts came from beyond the arc \u2014 he made six.
\nCan Thompson and fellow lottery pick Ron Holland<\/a>\u00a0play together more often this season? They\u2019re a disruptive defensive duo but they have to improve on the offensive end to make it work, Patterson<\/a> writes. Both have been working with assistant coach and shooting specialist Fred Vinson on a daily basis. Holland shot just 25.3% from long-range last season, his second in the league.
\nPresident of basketball operations Trajan Langdon acknowledges that veterans Tobias Harris<\/a> and Isaiah Stewart<\/a> will be missed. Harris signed with San Antonio as a free agent, while Stewart was dealt to Memphis. \u201cI can\u2019t say enough about either of those two players. Tobias was huge in setting the culture and establishing it \u2014 especially with his experience, leadership, professionalism and competitive nature. He helped us win a ton of games on the floor. He\u2019s not a player that we can replace. He has meant a lot to this organization. We\u2019ll miss him for sure and appreciate everything he brought,\u201d he told Coty M. Davis of the Detroit News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dana Gauruder | at September 19, 2026 10:30 am The Pistons took care of one of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[1026,7,12109,1016,912,9002,933,6244],"class_list":["post-839084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-basketball","tag-fred-vinson","tag-isaiah-stewart","tag-jalen-duren","tag-ron-holland","tag-tobias-harris","tag-trajan-langdon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117298672941897574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839084","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=839084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}