OAKLAND — Klay Thompson said he wasn’t going to sacrifice his game because the Warriors have Kevin Durant. It sounded as if Thompson might have been revealing the first sign of trouble on the Warriors’ super team, as if he wasn’t willing to share the ball. But his declaration might be quite prophetic.

The Warriors are so loaded on offense, he might end up getting more shots. With all the attention teams will have to pay to Durant and Stephen Curry, Thompson could reap the rewards of lesser defenders and defensive lapses.

He’s already getting all the shots he wants. Think about it: Thompson, a two-time All-Star and second-team All-NBA selection, being guarded by a team’s third-best defender or getting left alone in a game of “Pick Your Poison.” The Warriors still have Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston and Ian Clark is looking like he’s ready for a bigger role.

How can this team be guarded?

“They have to find a way to play together. If they can find that, sure, they can be the best offensive team.” – Steve Nash

That might be the question that determines everything this season. Much of the talk is about how they will mesh and who will get the shots. But more pressing is what’s the scheme to stop this varied attack? That’s the question the Los Angeles Clippers left Oracle asking on Tuesday, comforted only by the insignificance of the game.

Last year, the plan was to load up on Curry. He was the head of the snake and was met with double-teams and traps and physical play. The secondary defender would then be on Thompson and the opponent would pray that’s enough.

With this new lineup, if they trap Curry, that leaves Durant one-on-one. And helping on him gives open looks to Thompson and Green.

The other option is to not trap Curry, which will lead to the same results that prompted the trap in the first place.

Again: how can this team be guarded?

The Warriors’ top six players have so many options, so many ways to attack.

They can put Livingston or Iguodala at point guard and have Curry, Durant, Thompson and Green running off screens and setting them.

They can run their trusty pick-and-roll with Green and Curry, and have Durant on one side and Thompson on the other, forcing the defense to stay home or help and give them open shots.

They can run the offense through Durant and flank him with the two best shooters in the game, giving him space to drive because defenses are terrified of the Splash Brothers catching fire.

“Yeah. This team potentially could be better than any team in NBA history,” said two-time MVP Steve Nash, who has been working out with players at Warriors practice. “But again, that’s just potential. They have to find a way to play together. If they can find that, sure, they can be the best offensive team ever.”

For this you can be sure: the NBA will figure something out. It may not be this year. But eventually, the bright and creative minds, whose entire existence is devoted to schematics and strategy, will come up with something.

The Cavaliers came up with a plan to defend the Warriors, though aided by circumstances: press up and take away the open 3s, grab and hold until the whistle blows, and force the supporting cast to beat them. It worked. Curry and Thompson settled for contested 3-pointers against the pressure defense. Harrison Barnes went ice cold. The bench couldn’t score.

But now the Warriors have Durant. In addition to giving the Warriors one more player who can’t be left open, Durant gives the Warriors what they didn’t have — someone who can counter physicality by getting to the free-throw line.

The likelihood early is that teams will switch after every screen on defense. Instead of creating openings, mismatches and numbers advantages for the Warriors by trapping or fighting through screens, coach Steve Kerr is expecting teams to switch. Oklahoma City did it in the Western Conference Finals with success. So did Cleveland.

The Warriors employ the same defense. The trick, though, is personnel. It works when the defense has five players who are comfortable defending any position. Not many teams have that. Most of those that do will be going away from its lineup when it faces the Warriors.

Kerr is preparing for that defense already. The Warriors don’t have plays. Kerr doesn’t like thick playbooks. Instead, he likes philosophies and sets with multiple options. The key for the Warriors will be reading where the advantages are on the court. Durant has been working on his post game so when a point guard switches onto him, he can take advantage. Green has been working on his mid-range game so he can take his bigger defender and stick the pull-up or floater.

If the switch-everything approach doesn’t work, most teams will be leaving a game against the Warriors just like the Clippers. Completely defeated.

Nash, spearhead of one of the league’s greatest offenses ever, remembers what it did to most defenses. The frustration on their faces. The confusion in their communication. The resignation in their slumped shoulders.

His Phoenix Suns, masters of scoring in the early 2000s, used pace and skill to leave opponents spinning. The Suns attacked relentlessly, from multiple angles. Most teams were left hopeless to stop them.

“You could see that teams would get so stretched over the shooting and the penetration and draw and kick,” Nash said after Wednesday’s practice, “that they didn’t have answers and that could become demoralizing. Usually you can change coverages. But when you can’t, it can become demoralizing.”

And Nash said the Warriors could be the best offensive team ever.

The Warriors were the highest scoring team in the league last year, using motion, ball movement and multiple shooters in a way that’s similar to Nash’s Suns. Then they added Durant, replacing their two weakest offensive players for an MVP, a 30-point scorer who lives at the free throw line. Again: how can this team be guarded?