ONTARIO — The Lakers will seemingly go through a never-ending process. They will watch film of their previous game. Lakers coach Byron Scott will highlight all the defensive miscues that range from pick-and-roll coverage, transition defense and closing out on the perimeter. The Lakers will discuss the issues, and hope that improved effort and understanding will fix this issue.

But as the Lakers demonstrated in their 116-75 preseason loss Sunday to the Golden State Warriors at Citizens Business Bank Arena, they appear light years away from ever reaching that ideal. Things turned so badly that even Lakers veteran guard Ronnie Price drew a technical foul for throwing his shoe at Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala.

Price may have said facetiously he was “just trying to get it out of bounds.” But he then became pretty honest on why he would throw his shoe after it slipped off during an unsuccessful drive to the basket.

“I was just trying to stop the ball as fast as possible,” Price said. “The shoe was in my hand so I thought that would stop the play.”

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