The Dome No Home to Lakers : Pro basketball: Spur court is more like Alamodoom for L.A., which loses there for the seventh time in eight visits, 117-89.

The Lakers spent two hours and eight minutes in the dentist chair that is the Alamodome on Tuesday night, just in case they had any ideas of a winning streak here.

It took about 15 minutes for that notion to end, long enough for the Lakers to miss several layups/dunks and get in a funk over the officiating. The search for a comeback became the search for respectability, neither of which ever materialized as they shot 30.2% and scored 38 points in the first half and were eventually crushed by the San Antonio Spurs, 117-89, before 14,551.

That’s seven losses in eight visits to the dome for the Lakers. Most were by equally resounding margins, but not quite this bad. This was almost their worst loss ever in the 83-game series, before an 8-0 run to end the game avoided that final indignity.

“There’s not too much to critiquing this game,” Coach Del Harris said. “It was all a mistake, from start to finish.

“We played badly. There’s not much you can say beyond that. Bad offense, bad defense, a low-energy game.

“There’s no way you can dress this up. We played terrible.”

In this setting, they played terrible again. The history:

--Jan. 2, 1994. The Lakers shoot 46.3%, the only time they’ve come close to 50%, and scored 92 points.

--Feb. 1, 1994. They shoot 43.2%, score 97 points and lose by 15.

--Dec. 17, 1994. Committing only 10 turnovers helps them score 102 points, but it’s still 41.9% and a 14-point defeat.

--March 29, 1995. Eighty-four points, 35.1%.

--May 6, 1995. In 48 hours, they go from an emotional victory over Seattle in the first round of the playoffs, travel the day, and then open the Western Conference semifinals by shooting 40.2% and scoring 94 points.

--May 8, 1995. Vlade Divac misses two free throws with 4.6 seconds left that could have put the Lakers ahead. Instead, they finish with 90 points and 39.1% from the field and lose in overtime.

--May 16, 1995. Just 39.8%, but the first and only victory here, 98-96, in overtime as Nick Van Exel makes a pair of mega-clutch three-pointers.

--Tuesday.

The Lakers came in having been outscored, 104.6-93.9, in the first seven trips while shooting 40.7%, but San Antonio figured its opponents would arrive on a mission considering the way the playoff matchup ended. Next thing the Spurs knew, they were up by 13 points in the first quarter, 25 in the second, 29 in the third and, finally, 36 in the fourth.

“We got into the game, gained some momentum and broke them,” Spur Coach Bob Hill said.

A game? The Spurs barely got a workout, with David Robinson piling up 24 points, seven rebounds and five blocks in only 23 minutes and Sean Elliott getting 22 points and seven rebounds in 26 minutes.

“It’s very strange,” Van Exel said after the Lakers finished at 41.5%, his contribution being seven misses in 12 tries along with one assist in 29 minutes. “You figure you’re in the NBA. Teams shouldn’t be getting beat like this. Especially a team like this, with all the talent.”

Part of the talent had an excused absence. Elden Campbell was ejected with four minutes left in the first half with two technical fouls, the second of which came after he tossed a ball at San Antonio’s Will Purdue, who was on the ground following a failed attempt to draw a charge.

“I ain’t got nothing to talk about,” Campbell said later. “Nothing at all.”

What was left to say?

Laker Notes

Cedric Ceballos had 16 points and seven rebounds in 32 minutes, the most time of any Laker. Sedale Threatt had 15 points off the bench. . . . The cause of Anthony Peeler’s sore right foot has been determined to be tendinitis. The diagnosis does not change the timetable--he is still expected to sit out four more games and be reevaluated Sunday. . . . Assistant coach Michael Cooper, a five-time selection to the all-defensive team, on the job Laker guards did Sunday in limiting Indiana’s Reggie Miller to eight shots and eight points: “On a scale of one to 10, I thought everybody was a nine-plus.”