The Golden State Warriors are an excellent team, perhaps one of the greatest rosters assembled in NBA history. But that does not explain or excuse the atrocious manner in which the Lakers played in losing 111-77 in a contest that wasn’t even that close.
Every member of the Lakers organization should be embarrassed and humiliated at the team’s lackluster effort in a highly publicized, nationally televised game where the Warriors were going for a record 16-straight victories to start the season. It was not that the Lakers lost, it was the way they lost as they showed up with no energy and played the game with no fight, no passion, and no heart.