Kevon Looney's return to the Golden State Warriors after an early-season injury has been a struggle, as the full-motor big man has had difficulty fitting in with a frontcourt that has gotten plenty of run in the first few games of the 2019-20 season. Head coach Steve Kerr admitted as much when asked about Looney's incorporation.

“It’s really difficult,” Kerr said of Looney, who has played at his natural power forward position more his season, trying to adjust to a new roster while getting back into game shape, according to Connor Letourneau of The San Francisco Chronicle. “Loon, at the end of last year, was our best center. … For him to come back, deal with his own health issues, and then come back and not have any of the pieces around him that he was used to last year, it’s very, very different.

“But this has been a difficult season for everybody. We all have to fight our own individual battles, whatever those circumstances entail.”

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Looney is no longer thrust into a role of rebounding, providing second chances for an All-Star-studded team, and bring energy off the bench. Now he must initiate his own offense, find ways to score, and hold his own defensively, at times without a commander in the back in Draymond Green.

He's producing only 2.8 points on 32.1% from the floor and 3.0 rebounds, averages that hardly justify the awaited three-year, $15 million deal he received this summer.