CLEVELAND — The Lakers’ Wednesday night matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the second stop of their five-game road trip, could have provided a memorable father-son/teammates moment for LeBron James and Bronny James in their returns to Northeast Ohio.

“It’s a beautiful story,” Cleveland Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said before the game. “Having two kids of my own, I can’t even imagine, right? I enjoy playing in the backyard with my son. To do it on an NBA court, a beautiful story. I love it.

“We should celebrate it. I hope they’re on the court (Wednesday night).”

But that sentimental moment didn’t come to fruition, with the Lakers instead playing sloppily and having their worst performance of the season en route to a 134-110 blowout loss, their second consecutive defeat.

The Lakers (3-2) opened the trip with a 109-105 loss to the Phoenix Suns on Monday night.

“When you play good teams, you can’t afford a lot of mistakes,” Coach JJ Redick said. “We made a lot of mistakes. Simple stuff, sometimes. Low-man rotations. Not executing our switches early. They did a lot of things that forced us into those mistakes. But you play a good basketball team, you can’t make that many mistakes.”

Even though LeBron James (26 points to go with six rebounds and three assists) and Anthony Davis (22 points, 13 rebounds and two steals) finished with good counting stats in more limited minutes, one stat overshadowed the rest: giveaways.

James (six) and Davis (four) combined for 10 of the Lakers’ 21 turnovers. Austin Reaves (seven points) also had four turnovers.

The Cavaliers (5-0) scored 31 points off those giveaways — 17 in the first quarter, two in the second and eight in the third — preventing the Lakers from making Wednesday a competitive game after midway through the first.

“There are times out there where we’re a little unorganized,” James said when asked what needs to happen to provide structure in the Lakers’ disorganized offensive moments. “We’re still early on getting a new system in. Getting guys in the right position, getting guys in the right spots, having communication putting guys in the right spots and either looking at the coach for a play call or whoever handing the ball, trying to get guys in the right position.

“It’s still a new system. We just got together late September. We’re still trying to get through it and figure each other out. But the shootarounds will help. And we got to get better with it.”

Cleveland was led by Evan Mobley (25 points), Donovan Mitchell (24 points, seven assists, three steals) and Jarrett Allen (20 points, 17 rebounds).

The Cavaliers shot 57.5% from the field (56 for 97) and 41.5% from 3-point range (17 for 41). Cleveland scored 26 fast-break points.

“You have to stay out of limbo, No. 1,” Redick said. “And your offense has to help your defense. So if you turn the ball over and you’re not getting back, your transition defense is gonna suck.”

Davis moved with a notable limp during parts of Wednesday’s game after “tweaking” his hip in the first quarter.

“A little sore,” the All-Star big man said. “Kind of like jammed it, but I’ll be fine. It was bothering me throughout the course of the game, but nothing that’s going to stop me from playing.”

Even though it didn’t come with his father on the floor at the same time as him, Bronny had a memorable moment of his own, knocking down a 14-foot jumper late with 2:03 left in the game for his first NBA points.

The Lakers will continue their road trip against the Raptors on Friday in Toronto.