The Lakers lost at home to another bad team, 114-111 to the Memphis Grizzlies. That’s two consecutive defeats at Staples Center to NBA bottom-feeders (they lost to Charlotte on Wednesday), and if it’s not time to panic … we can see it from here.

Kobe Bryant scored 53, but the rest of the Lakers didn’t show up.

Lamar Odom, complaining of a respiratory infection, scored two points in 37 minutes. He got 11 rebounds and had 11 assists, but the rebounds mostly are a function of being 6-11 and standing under the basket in a game with 104 missed shots (63 by the Lakers) and the assists came from often being the last guy to toss the ball to Kobe.

Derek Fisher, who apparently has a torn muscle in his foot, scored four points in 24 minutes. Ronny Turiaf, who is starting only because Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum are still hurt, had six points in 24 minutes.

Vlad Radmanovic had nine in 24 minutes. Meaning the four starters not named Kobe Bryant combined to score 21 points.

This two-game slide isn’t good for some obvious reasons.The Lakers may just have squandered whatever chance they had of finishing with the best record in the Western Conference. Had they won these last two home games, they would be No. 1 in the West instead of a game back of New Orleans and San Antonio.

The Fisher Situation is becoming impossible to hide. The Lakers are being hammered at the “1” spot night after night. Fisher is great guy, but he never was a great player, and now he’s hurt, pushing 34 and fading fast. He’s averaged 9.7 points per game over his last nine games, five of which the Lakers have lost. He can’t stay in front of anyone, and opposition point guards are trashing the Lakers. Examples, over the past nine games: Chris Paul (27 points, 17 assists), Rafer Alston (31 and 5), Deron Williams (26 and 12), Earl Watson (!) (20 and 7), Baron Davis (18 and 4, 30 and 7).

Meanwhile, Fish’s contribution  on the scoring end has been reduced mostly to hoisting up threes. And he’s not even doing that very well, going 14-for-38 (36.8 percent) the last nine games. But what is truly alarming is the disappearance of the rest of his game. He has attempted only 52 non-threes in those nine games, and made only 20, a wretched 38.4 percent. And while he remains a great free-throw shooter, he’s gotten to the line only eight times in nine games. While still averaging nearly 30 minutes (29.7) per game. If he doesn’t pull it together, and his age and health may not allow it, the Lakers glaring hole at the point will be there to exploit for the rest of the season.

The Lakers also may be losing whatever swagger they picked up during their surge of December-February. Swagger isn’t always good, because it leads to fat-headed defeats of the sort the Charlotte game looked like, back on Wednesday. But about now genuine doubt has to be entering everyone’s minds (aside from Kobe’s, of course), losing two straight at home to bad teams while playing porous defense. And lack of confidence is a bigger threat to success than swagger.

The reasons these aren’t quite red-flag times are these:

The Lakers’ remaining schedule remains favorable. Seven of their last nine are at Staples, three of those nine are against teams with losing records, and their road trips are to Portland and Sacramento — competent but not great teams.

Gasol appears close to coming back from his ankle injury (like, in the next few days), Bynum is making slow progress and Chris Mihm (remember him?) actually got on the court for five minutes Friday night. Even Mihm could give them some semblance on interior presence so that opponents can’t get to the rim whenever they like.

And the Lakers still have Kobe Bryant. On a night when his team shut down around him, he went off for 53, giving them a chance to win.

Someone else, though, needs to step up and help KB24, or their surprise season will end in the first round of the playoffs.