Another night, another blowout loss for the Lakers

The calendar showed it to be late October, which was confusing, mainly because it felt like last February or March.

You’ve probably heard this one before, but the depleted Lakers ran into a young, fast team and got crushed.

The opponent Wednesday was the Phoenix Suns and the outcome showed a second blowout in as many days of the Lakers’ season, 119-99, at US Airways Center.

There are apparently some holdovers from the lost basketball year that was 2013-14. Injuries, of course, as the Lakers played their first game without rookie Julius Randle, but also lack of defense and lack of scoring from the point guard.

Kobe Bryant had 31 points and played with an air of anger almost the entire game as the Lakers fell to 0-2 by a combined margin of 38 points.

He was irritated by a non-call after a first-quarter drive and then upset with the referees for calling a Jordan Hill foul instead of a Suns traveling violation.

Bryant cursed twice in the third quarter after he fed Ed Davis down low and Davis was fouled. Bryant then walked by himself to the other end of the court and cursed a third time as he waited for Davis to finish his free throws.

He finally boiled over a few minutes later, picking up a technical foul after he thought he was fouled by Alex Len on a fadeaway. An official timeout was called and Bryant parked himself on the corner of the scorer’s table for most of it, several feet from the Lakers’ bench.

He was still scowling when the timeout ended. It could become a familiar look this season.

Lakers Coach Byron Scott tried to say Bryant was frustrated because he felt as if he was getting continually fouled. Not true, revealed Bryant.

“The frustration comes from getting blown out twice,” a much calmer Bryant said afterward. “The clutching and grabbing stuff, I think Byron was trying to lobby to get me some more calls.”

Bryant was far from erupting in the locker room, even though he was the only Lakers starter to finish in double-figure scoring.

Jeremy Lin contributed a mere six points and an assist. Carlos Boozer had four points and four rebounds.

The Lakers’ third-leading scorer was Wayne Ellington, a training-camp signee with a non-guaranteed contract who sat out the opener because of a concussion. He had 13 points Wednesday.

“Guys are so young,” Bryant said before mentioning former teammate Derek Fisher. “Fish wasn’t Fish when he came in. I wasn’t me when I came in. You don’t stay patient. You stay persistent. You want those results today but you understand that it’s a process to get there.”

The Lakers went more than 13 quarters without making a three-pointer in exhibition season, a bizarre trend popping up as an incredible disparity Wednesday.

The Suns made 16 of 32 from three-point range, the Lakers four of 13.

“The three-point shot’s a big problem for us,” Bryant said. “The brand of basketball that’s being played, teams really shoot the three. We’re not a big three-point shooting team so we can’t give up 16 of them.”

Bryant made 11 of 25 shots, two of four from three-point range.

Marcus Morris had 21 points for the Suns, making five three-pointers, and was primarily guarded by Bryant.

Long before the blowout, injured forward Nick Young acknowledged team morale was a “little down” because of the season-ending medical news that started last week with Steve Nash’s chronic back issues and continued Tuesday when Randle broke his right leg.

“I thought last year was bad but this has been crazy,” said Young, still sidelined another month because of a torn thumb ligament.

There’s one way to improve morale — win games. But the next three for the Lakers are against the Clippers, Golden State and Phoenix again.

Twitter: @Mike_Bresnahan