Lakers in deep-6 trouble

The Lakers came back from the All-Star break and were still broken.

Kobe Bryant shot poorly, pretty much the entire team defended inadequately, and the result was a 112-108 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday at Staples Center.

It meant a six-game losing streak for the Lakers and new territory for Coach Phil Jackson, who had never lost six consecutive games in his 16-year NBA coaching career.

“I think we deserve it,” Jackson said. “We’ve had a little bad luck with our injury situation, but we have not outplayed people or played harder than people.”

It remains to be seen if the loss does anything to force the Lakers’ hand at today’s trade deadline, although General Manager Mitch Kupchak said Wednesday night that a trade would be “very unlikely.”

Jackson, who met with Kupchak for two hours earlier Wednesday, had similar sentiments.

“I don’t see a lot of momentum that’s going to create anything right now, to be honest with you,” he said.

Portland (24-32) had all the momentum in the fourth quarter, hitting the Lakers for 34 points. For the game, the Blazers made 59.7% of their shots.

There were scattered boos by Lakers fans in the last minute.

Bryant had 25 points on eight-for-22 shooting, an off night compounded by the woes of the Lakers’ defense, a soft spot through most of the season.

The Lakers (30-25) led going into the fourth quarter, 80-78, but found themselves trailing, 100-89, after Brandon Roy made a 13-footer with 4:41 to play. Again, the Lakers were hit hard when it mattered most as the Blazers made 10 of 16 shots (62.5%) in the fourth quarter.

“We really didn’t give ourselves a chance to win that game,” Jackson said. “That game got away from us real quickly. We didn’t stand up well all night. They shot almost 60%.”

Every Portland starter made more than half his shots, with the exception of Joel Przybilla, who didn’t take any.

Jarrett Jack had 30 points on nine-for-12 shooting. Zach Randolph had 22 points on nine-for-16 shooting. Roy made six of 11 shots and Ime Udoka made four of five.

“There’s a pattern to almost all our losses,” Jackson said. “We don’t consistently play defense and we don’t consistently rebound. We play tit for tat during the course of the game, and you can’t do that continually.”

Lamar Odom, who had 16 points, seven rebounds and three assists, attributed it to “maybe a little bit of a chemistry problem.”

“How do you expect to win?” he said. “You don’t get any stops.”

Beforehand, as players returned from various states around the country, Jackson didn’t blink when asked about his goals the rest of the regular season.

“Undefeated,” he said. “Twenty-eight games, undefeated. I’d take that. I’m going to try and make it happen ... starting tonight.”

The last time the Lakers took the court before the All-Star break, they fell to Cleveland, 114-108, a loss followed up by Jackson saying he “saw players that had quit in their eyes.”

Six days later, after the players scattered for the weekend before reconvening, Jackson hoped he wouldn’t see a repeat.

“I’m sure the message got through,” he said before Wednesday’s game.

It didn’t look that way.

The Lakers struggled from the start, needing a Bryant reverse layup with 3.7 seconds left in the second quarter to give them a 54-52 halftime edge.

Brian Cook started in place of injured forward Vladimir Radmanovic and had seven points on three-for-13 shooting in 23 minutes.

mike.bresnahan@latimes.com