All right, welcome to Locked on Warriors, your daily podcast on all things.

I'm Wes Goldberg, a writer for the Mercury News, and I'm joined today by Charles

Steve Hamilton, and we are here

talking about another frustrating loss, Charles, 116 to 86 to the Los Angeles Lakers who I know

Warriors fans don't like, only rubbing salt in the wound on a night where the Lakers were without

LeBron James,

this was an opportunity for the Warriors to maybe break this losing streak that they're

in the middle of.

But instead, they have now lost 23 of the last 26 games, eight straight games now.

They were without Andrew Wiggins, who was a late scratch.

But I honestly don't think he would have done a whole lot to change the outcome

in this game. Do you? No, I don't. And I know technically we look at it is, oh, LeBron's out.

It's an opportunity to win. I mean, the Lakers are still just better than the Warriors, or this

Warriors team without Steph Clay and then Wiggins is out. I mean, it kind of, look, they played hard in the first half.

It was great that they were down too at half time and, you know, gave you a little bit of hope.

But I think a 30-point loss is, I don't know, almost expected in a game like this.

Yeah, and look, I mean, they, like you said, they were down by two at half time.

It was still really a game.

It was a boring game, but it was at least a winnable game at that point.

But Draymond Green got ejected in the second quarter.

He was called for an offense.

He was called for a defensive foul after Dwight Howard basically pushed him over.

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