One of the many things that got Monty Williams fired as head coach of the Detroit Pistons was his insistence on using Isaiah Stewart as a power forward with Jalen Duren at center.
Even though Stewart was shooting more 3-point shots back then, the half-court offense was predictably stagnant with little space around Cade Cunningham. It didn’t help that their best shooters were always hurt (or just bad), but the two-big lineup became one of the symbols of Williams’ failure in Detroit.
After Isaiah Stewart broke out last season as a full-time backup center, it became even clearer that moving him to power forward was a bad idea, so it’s not one most Pistons fans would like to revisit, at least for long stretches of the game.