The Los Angeles Lakers are a mess. A laugh-inducing, timeline-crumbling mess.

During Wednesday's 124-104 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA Twitter couldn't roast them enough. And the brash, young Wolves weren't afraid to help on that front.

Late in the second quarter, Malik Beasley nearly airballed a desperation jumper at the end of the shot clock. Malik Monk and Carmelo Anthony were the only bodies in position for a rebound, and they still let Patrick Beverley sneak in behind them, snag the board, lay it in for two and flex on them immediately afterward.

On the very next possession, Beverley gave the advancing Russell Westbrook 15-20 feet of space. It's the kind of disrespect typically reserved for pickup runs against the guy you know can't or won't shoot. And Westbrook responded by throwing a lazy pass to LeBron James that was picked off by, you guessed it, Beverley.

Then, with less than four minutes to go in the game, Russ loaded up for a wide-open three from the corner. With no one contesting, he launched the ball a good two or three feet beyond the rim. He failed to draw iron, and Karl-Anthony Towns did everything he could to draw attention to it.

Just watch this from the floor angle. Absolutely brutal trolling from KAT.

In a season that seemingly delivers a new low every other week, Wednesday gave us another one. On the heels of back-to-back double-digit losses, and during a post-All-Star stretch in which the team's only two wins came in games in which LeBron James scored 50, the Lakers were getting straight-up clowned.

How is it possible for a team with LeBron averaging 29.5 points, 6.2 assists and 2.8 threes to be this bad? How is it possible for a team that just won the title in 2020 to be a laughingstock for another club that didn't even make the playoffs that year?

How did the Lakers go from being the team with the second shortest title odds prior to this season to one that inspires this level of disinterest by March?

As is the case with most meltdowns, there isn't one answer.