OAKLAND, Calif. — As the Golden State Warriors demolished the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night, it was hard to envision how a team could play better offensively.

Golden State’s quartet of stars – Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant and Draymond Green – had their way with the young Lakers, paying them back for a blowout loss at Staples Center earlier this month by eviscerating them in every way: burying bombs from 3-point range, threading the needle on beautiful passes for fast-break layups and dunks, and assisting on virtually every shot in a 149-106 triumph.

By the time it was over, the Warriors had finished with 149 points – including 80 in the first half – en route to a 43-point rout, with Curry, Thompson and Durant combining for 85 points and the Warriors finishing with 47 assists on their 53 made field-goal attempts.

“I don’t think a team I’ve ever been on has scored 150 points in a game so I thought that would be pretty cool,” said Thompson, who was jumping up and down, hoping Ian Clark would put up a 3-pointer on the final possession to try and get the Warriors to that number. “But I can settle for 149. That’s a pretty amazing night on the offensive end.”

Lakers Coach Luke Walton is all too familiar with the Warriors after spending the last two seasons with them as an assistant coach. But even he was overwhelmed by the performance he witnessed Wednesday night.

“Forty-seven assists on fifty-something field goals is one of the greatest stats I’ve ever heard or seen,” Walton said. “Unfortunately it happened against us, but to me that’s basketball at its best.”

It was the kind of performance that would, on a normal night, garner all of the headlines across the NBA universe. This, however, wasn’t a normal night.

That’s because a few hours earlier, and on the other side of the country, the Cleveland Cavaliers had registered an offensive explosion of their own. The Cavaliers scored 46 points in the first quarter – including 34 alone on eight 3-pointers from Kevin Love – and 81 in the first half, on their way to a 137-125 win over the Portland Trail Blazers.

Love finished with 40 points, while LeBron James added a cool 31 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists for his 44th career triple-double.

This night simply underscored what has been true for some time now: that the Warriors and Cavaliers simply are on a different level than everyone else offensively. Sure, the Clippers and Raptors are both in the same stratosphere from a statistical standpoint in these early stages of the season, and it can’t be ignored that the two sacrificial lambs Wednesday night – the Lakers and Blazers – are two of the NBA’s worst defensive teams.

But even with those caveats, the undeniable truth about these two teams is that, when they’re clicking, they have become “NBA Jam” brought to life, with lineups loaded with players on fire that make opposing defenses feel helpless in their wake.

Golden State was already a historically great offense even before adding Kevin Durant – one of the league’s three best players, and one of the best scorers of all-time – as a free agent this summer. The expectation was trying to acclimate Durant with his new teammates and with a more egalitarian distribution of shots – as opposed to the isolation-heavy pound-the-ball attack he and Russell Westbrook led in Oklahoma City – was going to take some work.

Instead, Durant has fit in seamlessly, with one of the game’s most efficient scorers somehow becoming even more so after moving to the Bay Area. And the fears of the Warriors losing the ball movement that made them so special offensively the past two years have quickly evaporated, as they have nearly the exact same percentage of isolation possessions this season as they did last year, per Synergy Sports tracking data available on NBA.com’s stats page.

“You figure that it’s going to take a little while, but how do you pinpoint when it’s going to click? So there’s no way of telling,” Warriors Coach Steve Kerr said of fitting Durant into Golden State’s offensive flow. “I did think it would happen relatively smoothly in terms of incorporating Kevin in terms of what we do because he’s such a great playmaker and he enjoys playing the way we play.

“It’s not like we’re trying to fit the square peg in the round hole. He came here for a reason. I think he enjoyed watching us play in recent years and I think he wanted to be a part of it, and he fits right in.”

The result has been the trio of Curry, Thompson and Durant becoming a three-man wrecking crew, combining to average well over 70 points per game between them while shooting over 50 percent from the floor and close to 40 percent from 3-point range (and that final number will only go up as Thompson continues to dig himself out of the massive statistical hole he dug for himself to start the year).

Cleveland, meanwhile, has been virtually unstoppable on offense from the moment they acquired Channing Frye prior to last February’s trade deadline.

It’s not that the Cavaliers didn’t have plenty of offense before – they did have Kyrie Irving, Love and some guy named James, after all – and Frye certainly isn’t a superstar, and for many teams wouldn’t necessarily be an ideal starting center.

But adding Frye gave the Cavaliers a element they didn’t have before: a true stretch center, with Frye being a 6-foot-11 center who has consistently shot in the high 30s from 3-point range for the past several seasons.

He was the right piece at the right time for Cleveland, whose addition allowed the Cavaliers to space the floor with three to four above-average shooters while putting the ball in James’ hands – giving opposing defenses a pair of “Choose Your Own Adventure” options that always ended badly for the opposition.

There are still months to go before these two teams square off in the NBA finals for a third straight season. But it’s only taken a few weeks for both the Warriors and Cavaliers to send a loud and clear signal to the rest of the NBA that finding a way to stop either of them is a gargantuan task.