The condensed NBA schedule this season is going to punish teams making changes. Then there are the Nets, who have changed their coach, offense, defense and lineup. Their conundrum is clear.

“It’s going to be a challenge,” coach Steve Nash admitted as his Nets prepared for Friday’s preseason finale in Boston. “You do the best you can, try to keep people healthy first and foremost, and then try to find that cohesion and collective experience second. They’re both priorities. They’re both a little [in] antithesis to one another.

“The last ingredient is if the guys really buy in and understand this is going to be a trying season and they have to connect as people off the floor as well to try to make this experience as enjoyable as possible, and make as many connections as possible rather than just being pieces of a puzzle in their own silos.”

It would be understandable if the Nets were a bunch of disconnected silos. Tuesday’s regular-season opener against the Warriors will be Kyrie Irving’s first game since Feb. 1 (shoulder), Kevin Durant’s first since June 2019 (Achilles) and Nash’s first ever as a coach.

“Even from the bubble, it’s going to be a different team, especially from last year when we started. So really it’s going to be tough,” Jarrett Allen said. “We only had a couple months to prepare, and now the season’s going to be even shorter, so it’s definitely going to fast-forward everything.

“We’re going to have to try to force-feed some chemistry, learn each other’s games even quicker. Not only watch film on the other team, but watch film on us, see what everybody likes to do.”

With a 72-game schedule — 1,080 NBA games crammed into five months — reduced practice time will hurt the Nets. More three- and four-game weeks will mean lots of load management and nights off for Durant, despite the NBA reiterating it will fine teams for resting players for national TV games.

“We’re not in the business of making excuses. So, is it difficult to have a whole new team? Of course. Is it difficult to be dealing with coronavirus? Of course. There are things everybody’s dealing with at this moment in time that aren’t seamless or easy,” Spencer Dinwiddie said. “It’s going to be on us. We need to be accountable. We need to do our jobs.”

The Nets’ seven back-to-backs in the first half are about average, but only four times will they have tough spans of three games in four nights. That’s tied for the NBA’s second-fewest, one more than the Trail Blazers and half the Knicks’ league-high eight. The downside is it guarantees a brutal post-All Star slog.

The Nets’ enviable depth must help snare early wins — especially in home games against lesser teams, when Durant and Irving are more likely to sit.

“There’s an argument to be made that — because we have better depth than most teams — we have an advantage there. So, where we have less time under our belt together, we also have more depth,” Dinwiddie said. “If you look at some of the other top teams and take off their first or second guy, maybe third guy, the roster is unrecognizable. Whereas with ours, we have a lot of continuity.

“You take off those type of pieces — [DeAndre Jordan], KD, Kyrie, the main guys — you still have myself, Caris [LeVert], Joe [Harris], Jarrett Allen that have helped us get to the playoffs. It’s a situation where we have to do our best to make their lives easy, the same way they make our lives easy.”

While Dinwiddie joked the Nets will guard any team-building secrets like Fort Knox, he echoed Nash’s thoughts about lack of on-court time making their off-court bonding all the more vital.

“Take these road trips, take the time at dinners together, whatever it may be. Just continue to build that chemistry, that camaraderie, try to be in sync off the floor,” Dinwiddie said. “We have the talent to do something special. It’s about coming together and being accountable.”