LOS ANGELES — The Lakers’ winning streak, if two in a row would even constitute such a thing, ended quietly Friday.

The wildly surprising Utah Jazz came to Crypto.com Arena and dominated the Lakers from start to finish, scoring at will from three-point range and rolling to a 130-116 victory.

Russell Westbrook was a spark again off the Lakers’ bench with 28 points and six assists, but the game wasn’t about offense. The Lakers had plenty of it. They just couldn’t stop Utah.

The Lakers came into the game with the NBA’s third-best defense but were troubled from the start, allowing 40 points in the first quarter and trailing at halftime, 75-62.

Utah was impressive throughout from three-point range (42.5%) and outscored the Lakers by 18 points behind the arc.

Coach Darvin Ham, who has pushed the importance of defense since taking the Lakers’ job in June, called Friday’s defensive effort “inept at best."

LeBron James didn’t disagree.

“We didn’t have it for 48 minutes. We had it in spurts,” he said. “It’s not about the offense. We have to defend.”

James has been battling flu-like symptoms all week and didn’t shoot well Friday. He made only seven of 19 shots and scored 17 points.

Compounding the Lakers’ problems was an inability to box out. The Jazz had a staggering 14 offensive rebounds that led to 25 second-chance points.

“It’s the NBA, man, 82 games,” Westbrook said. “Sometimes there will be times where you have some slippage."

The Lakers (2-6) couldn’t even blame their typically subpar three-point shooting, which was a solid 42.3% on the night. They just didn’t shoot enough of them successfully to counteract Utah’s outburst.

The Jazz (7-3) became the first Western Conference team to win seven games after appearing to have an active off-season for all the wrong reasons. Coach Quin Snyder resigned and Utah’s top three players were traded — Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and Bojan Bogdanovic. The Jazz picked up a slew of draft picks and were supposed to be years from a successful season.

Then came an unexpectedly strong start this season with quality wins over Memphis (twice), New Orleans, Minnesota and Denver.

Lauri Markkanen scored 27 points and former Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson added 20 points for Utah against the Lakers.

Westbrook was one of the Lakers’ few bright spots. He pushed the pace, made three three-pointers and seemed entirely comfortable coming off the bench for a third straight game.

There were even “M-V-P” chants for Westbrook from an appreciative Lakers crowd when he was at the free-throw line Friday.

The Lakers’ schedule continues to be full of early challenges with a home game Sunday against red-hot Cleveland, then a road rematch at Utah and a designated road game against the Clippers.