I know it feels like they will right now, but the Warriors will not go 82-0 next year.

They’re going to be good, no question. Unbelievably good. Maybe historically good. After the team won 73 games this regular season — an NBA record — and came within a game of repeating as champions, they added former MVP Kevin Durant, a 7-footer with one of the sweetest shooting strokes the game has ever seen.

They’re going to be phenomenal. But as we’ve seen time and time again with teams like this, there are going to be growing pains. This team has things they need to figure out. And the biggest thing is: How does Draymond Green fit into this team?

To incorporate the newly arriving Durant into this offense, the Warriors need to figure out where his shots are going to come from. Our own Steven Ruiz has written about this, arguing that it will be simple. With the departure of Harrison Barnes, each of the other Warriors stars — Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Green — would just have to sacrifice three shots a game to get Durant the shots he needs.

But if you’re the Warriors, are you really going to ask Curry and Thompson — two of the greatest shooters to ever play the game — to give up shots? No. That’d be ridiculous. You’re going to ask Draymond Green to give up the shots. And that’s where we run into trouble.

While there weren’t many issues for the Warriors in their historic run to 73 games this regular season, the one that stood out was Green’s unhappiness with his sometimes limited role in the offense. That came to a head in a game against the Thunder in February, when ESPN’s Lisa Salters reported that Green could be heard screaming in the locker room at halftime: “I’m not a robot; I know I can play. You have me messed up right now. If you don’t want me to shoot, I won’t shoot the rest of the game.”

Green averaged just a hair over 10 shots a game last season, and while he was given more freedom to express himself offensively under fill-in head coach Luke Walton at the beginning of the season, his shots were slightly more limited when Steve Kerr returned to the bench.

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Ten shots is not a ton of shots to begin with — Curry averaged double that last season — and if Green is asked to sacrifice four, or even five of those attempts per game, he’d be back to where he was two years ago. If he’s OK with that, that’s fine, but if he bristles at all about taking a backseat …

The counter-argument to this is that Green will get more open looks in this amped-up Warriors offense. Teams will be distracted by Durant, Curry and Thompson, and he’ll have plenty of open looks. If that happens, and he’s happy to be a guy who stands in the corner and takes 3s, and the Warriors win every game by 40, I’m sure it’ll work out.

But it’s something to keep an eye on. Green is the emotional leader of this Warriors team, and hugely important to its chemistry. I’m worried that if he’s left out of this offense, he might take it personally.

It will be a line that Steve Kerr needs to walk carefully. It will be tempting to leave Green out of the offense (why run a Curry-Green pick and roll if you can run a Curry-Durant one?) but Kerr will have to adapt and make sure that everyone on the team is getting his looks.

Most importantly, Kerr needs to make sure this Core Four doesn’t turn into a Big 3 and unhappy Draymond, because that could submarine the quest for history.