CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If there was any doubt about the level of enthusiasm surrounding the season debut of the Charlotte Hornets’ starting point guard, the constant interruptions Monday morning made it even more obvious.

Coby White had just finished his morning shootaround duties and could barely get through a sentence without hearing his name shouted by a teammate, creating a hearty echo in the Spectrum Center’s inner bowels.

As White stood in front of a wall just outside the Hornets’ locker room, explaining what it’s been like sitting out training camp and the season’s initial seven games, the non-stop brotherly love he received further confirmed just how much his presence on the court has been missed.

“The environment that they’ve created here, the environment that my teammates have created, we all want to see each other succeed,” White said. “And we are all here for each other. It’s a dope moment for me for everybody to be excited for me to come back. It feels good knowing that they are excited for me to come back.”

After spending the better part of the past month rehabilitating a left calf strain, White was in the starting lineup for Charlotte’s 124-91 loss to the Detroit Pistons.

Although his presence wasn’t enough to help the Hornets halt their losing streak — which swelled to four games — just having him out there could be considered a minor victory for a team in need of some positive injury news, given it’s also been without Kon Knueppel and Grant Williams. Knueppel has been nursing a strained left hamstring and appears on track to make his season debut on Wednesday in Brooklyn barring any setbacks, a move that will surely provide a boost.

White’s return means the Hornets nearly have their projected starting unit intact.

“A couple of things that I’ve noticed from him,” Hornets coach Charles Lee said. “One, his body looks great. That was something that he wanted to focus on, coming back and being in really good shape. You can’t really recreate basketball movements — stopping and cutting and going, the pace and physicality.

“But he wanted to make sure he was eating cleaner, and it’s definitely paying dividends.”

Still, the plan is for the Hornets (3-5) to work White back into the mix slowly. He’ll be on a minutes restriction initially, which is partially the reason he logged only 15 minutes against the Pistons.

Having White back in the fold allows Lee to shift Dennis Schröder into the reserve point guard role he was pegged for when the Hornets acquired him from the Cleveland Cavaliers for Tre Mann in August. Schroder had done most of the heavy lifting at the position while White was sidelined, starting in all seven appearances. But there will be a sizable downtick in the 32.4 minutes per game he’s logging, which is more than he’s averaged on any of his previous four teams.

That’s because the keys to the Hornets’’ offense were given to White once he re-signed as a free agent in July. He excels and thrives in situational basketball, particularly at the end of quarters, and Charlotte needs to utilize as much of his basketball I.Q. as it can right now.

The Hornets need to find some offense — and quickly. They haven’t cracked triple digits in half of their games and are the lone team in the NBA not averaging at least 100 points. The 97.4 points Charlotte is putting up per game ranks dead last in the NBA.

White’s presence isn’t a panacea, but it’s certainly a start. Especially for a team that’s given the ball away 45 times in its last two games.

“It ain’t going to change overnight,” White said. “We’re a team. Me coming into the lineup … it ain’t gonna really change. We’re not going to magically go from 20-whatever turnovers to five turnovers. We play fast, we play upbeat. Up-tempo is the way we play. But how do we limit (turnovers), turning that number from 25 to 13, 14 and not as many non-ball turnovers?”