The Golden State Warriors are going to be very good this season. That may sound obvious when discussing a team that has won 140 games, made it to two NBA Finals, and won a championship over the last two seasons, but it's a reminder that despite blowing the series lead they did to the Cleveland Cavaliers, this team is as close to invincible as you can get.

A big part of that is the team they had last year. Another big part of that is the star they added this summer with signing Kevin Durant. It has some wondering just how fair things will be for opponents against the Warriors and whether or not the competitive balance in the NBA has been completely compromised.

They still have to figure out how to maximize their potential on the court. That's the job of Steve Kerr and the coaching staff as he manages the inclusion of Durant with existing stars Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson. One way to make everything work is likely to be staggering the minutes of Durant and Curry (along with Draymond and Klay) so that there is always an All-Star on the floor until they've made it such a blowout that they can rest guys the rest of the game.

In a discussion with Mercury News columnist Tim Kawakami, Kerr talked about experimenting with those different combinations they can run and he has an idea of how it will all work out. But he also needs to see it work first.

From Tim Kawakami:

-Q: This all will shake out, but does the idea of staggering Curry and Durant's minutes so you can at least one of them on the court at all times... does that seem intriguing to you? -KERR: Well, that's one of the great luxuries of having not only Steph and Durant, but the guys around them, Klay and Draymond, Andre and Shaun... We've got a lot of combinations that can work and can also generate rest for other guys, and we're going to be experimenting with all those. I have an idea of how it'll look, but I don't know if it'll work yet. We have to see if it'll work. But it will be absolutely staggering our players and keeping certain guys on the floor at all times.

Steve Kerr wants to see how they grow defensively. USATSI

The minutes staggering seems to make the most sense. You'll have times in which you have the starting lineup or the Death Lineup out there, and you've got four All-NBA players on the floor at once. But if you can also make the minutes rotations work to where you have either Curry or Durant on the floor at all times until the game is out of reach, then you just have this unfair advantage that no other team can even approach on a nightly basis. Not even the Brooklyn Nets.

Kerr will also have to figure out how to make everybody mesh together when they're on the floor together. The offense will likely take care of itself, but the Warriors no longer have a traditional rim protector like they used to. They have more of a positional defender in Zaza Pachulia replacing Andrew Bogut and Festus Ezeli, and they'll have to rebuild familiarity with defensive positioning and trust with their two new starters. That will take time to solve.

The Warriors coach will have veterans like Pachulia and David West to help figure those things out and doesn't expect to rely too much on his last two first-round picks, Kevon Looney and Damian Jones. He's hoping that the Warriors are judged less on approaching their record win total of 73 last year and get evaluated more on how they look each month in terms of growing their play together.

-Q: How do you mesh this group together? -KERR: Yeah, it's a good question. I think it'll be a lot different-we've got probably two new starters. I anticipate KD and Zaza will be in the starting lineup. I don't think we'll look a whole lot different offensively. We still want to do the same things, we want to push it and play fast and move the ball, get good shots. Defensively is a bigger challenge. We lose rim protection with Bogut and Ezeli, we gain a great position defender in Zaza, we gain great experience in David West, and we have some youth inside; we can't count on anything yet from Looney or Jones, we'll see what they bring. But in my mind this is a very different season and a different approach to the season. Much more experimental. I think our fans should really look forward to watching the growth of the team; whereas last year we were kind of a finished product on opening night. We really were. We were the same team that won the title. This is a different team. We've got a lot of growing ahead. The fans should not be focused on how many wins we get, they should be focused on how different we look from one month to the next. Good luck with that, huh?

Of course, Kerr isn't going to pretend that being judged on anything but win totals is going to happen. Not only that, but because of the 3-1 Finals lead they blew in June, the win totals will not matter even if they exceed their already ridiculous expectations. Until they secure that fourth win in the NBA Finals in June to get their second title under Kerr, they will always be reminded of collapsing against the Cavs in 2016.

No pressure.