Draymond Green was the most obvious offensive non-factor for the Golden State Warriors, as they shot a mere 40.9 percent from the floor in a 127-101 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, but Kevin Durant thinks it's more than his frontcourt partner that is impeding their prowess scoring the ball.

“Bigs aren’t really guarding their man at the rim,” Durant said, according to Anthony Slater of The Athletic. “Then sometimes they’re leaving Draymond, Andre (Iguodala) and Shaun (Livingston) at the 3-point line.”

The Warriors have three deadeye shooters in Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Durant, but they also have suspect long-range shooters open in Iguodala and Green, with Livingston not even venturing into shots beyond 18 feet.

Curry was visibly double-teamed from the start of the game and went 0-for-4 from deep, often shooting out of rhythm and forcing poor shots from his best spots.

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The result? A 5-of-17 shooting night from a player that has been flirting with a 50-50-90 season for the vast majority of 2018-19 and only 15 points to his name in yet another poor Christmas Day outing.

“It’s changed a lot,” Curry agreed. “A lot of that’s because our personnel’s different. A lot of that’s because you have to try different stuff to stop us. A couple times we’ve gotten stymied. We have to put our collective heads together and see what kind of adjustments we need to make.”

The Warriors no longer have multi-dimensional bigs — no lob threats without JaVale McGee and no nifty passes and ultimate grit with a player of David West's caliber.

Instead, the action from a capable Kevon Looney and a somewhat inconsistent Jonas Jerebko have hardly proven to match the frontcourt fortitude the team displayed last season. Throw in a regressing Jordan Bell, and the Steve Kerr-led Warriors can't see the day DeMarcus Cousins comes back from injury.