The Warriors beat the Sacramento Kings 119-104 Friday.

The scoreline might indicate to you that it was another ho-hum Warriors victory.

It wasn’t.

The Warriors turned the ball over 25 times in an incredible display of sloppy basketball, but still found a way to overtake an overmatched Kings team in the fourth quarter.

Here’s what we learned from Friday’s game:

Talent wins, and that might be an issue

Congratulations to the Warriors, who won an NBA game on the merit of eight solid minutes of basketball Friday night.

Let’s be frank: The Warriors had no business winning Friday’s game against the Kings.

They won because they are the best team in the NBA and because the Kings are unquestionably the worst.

Hot damn, the Kings are terrible.

To be fair, Friday’s game was a fun experiment — we found out just how important talent is in the NBA.

Yes, yes, it should be obvious, but Sacramento served as an excellent control. We’ve seen the Warriors play lazy basketball for most of the season. You know the story: The Warriors let the other team — amped to play the champions — jump out to an early lead, then they start to find a rhythm towards the end of the second quarter, building some momentum and fostering some doubt as both teams head into the locker room, and then the Warriors blow the doors off in the third quarter, typically when the starters are on the floor to begin the half, after which, the Dubs go into cruise control.

A typical Warriors win seems to require between 12 and 20 minutes of solid play — far less than half a game.

Friday’s win required even half of that — and that’s using the most conservative estimates.

Again, the Kings are terrible, though the way the Warriors played for the first 36 minutes of Friday’s game, you would have thought Sacramento was a nice up-and-coming team. There’s playing down to the level of the competition, then there’s what the Warriors did Friday. It was another level of leveling ineptitude.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after the game that his team is mentally fried. That’s understandable — heavy is the head that lies the crown (and all of that good stuff).

Hell, Kerr is probably fried — how else do you mess up a DM? I have an iPhone X [this is why I can wear Big Baller Brand shoes (if they came in my size and I had $500 and nine months to spare)] and I have been trying to recreate that move for the past 12 hours. No dice.

(I know Hanlon’s Razor applies to this unimportant story — there’s no doubt in my mind that Kerr wanted to send a DM and messed it up — but it’s more fun to think of the “mistake” as Kerr channeling his inner LeBron and getting into the distraction game on social media. Muddy those waters, Steve!)

Super-important issues aside, Kerr’s belief is that the All-Star break will reset the team. That is also understandable.

“We’re limping to the finish line of the All-Star break,” Kerr told reporters after the game.

But what if the Warriors aren’t just fried? Can’t a bit of hubris play into this uninspiring play as well?

It’s a fine line — and perhaps I’m reading this whole situation wrong — but what if the Warriors aren’t mentally fatigued? What if they’re just bored by their competition and confident in their abilities.

Kerr noted after the Warriors’ win over the Timberwolves last week that “talent wins”. It might seem obvious to everyone, but I thought it was one of the most insightful things Kerr has said all year – and Kerr says a lot of insightful things.

In saying “talent wins”, Kerr openly admitted the thing that we were all thinking is true: the Warriors know that they’re so much better than every other team in the NBA (save for the Celtics and Rockets), so they half-ass their way through games against inferior opponents.

Listen, I get being sick of spending every day with the same people, too. I get that there’s an incredible day-in, day-out grind to being the best team in the NBA and the measuring stick for 29 other teams. I get that these guys probably need a break.

But I also think that they entered Friday’s game against the Kings without an ounce of fear that they would lose, and that has nothing to do with mental fatigue.

Sure enough, they were proven correct — the Warriors barely had to take the proverbial car out of first gear against Sacramento to win. (And credit Draymond Green’s lock-down defense more than Kevin Durant’s impressive shot-making for that.)

And when you’re able to do that time and time again — when a bit of cockiness is consistently rewarded — doesn’t that only reinforce that mindset?

Again, the difference between exhaustion and apathy is difficult to discern, but combined, it can be deadly.

But in the Warriors’ case, it’s only deadly if you consider a loss to the Mavericks on a Thursday in February terminal.

(Yep, I’m calling my shot.)

Golden State is going to coast to the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. They’re going to breeze through the first two rounds of the playoffs.

That’s happening, because talent wins and the Warriors — despite still having a flawed roster — are the most talented team in the league.

That’s why I don’t think believing that you can sleepwalk for 36 minutes and beat the Kings is a real problem for the Warriors — the only time that arrogance could backfire is in May and June and you can bet the Warriors won’t be disinterested in those games.

That said, it can lead to some godawful basketball:

As mentioned earlier, the Warriors had 25 assists on Friday. They also had 25 turnovers.

And boy, there were some doozies.

Here are the best of the best, with appropriate musical accompaniment.

Just a reminder — they won this game. And while I don’t think there’s anything to be gleaned about this contest when looking at the scope of the season, it’s hard to believe that being rewarded for a performance like Friday’s is a good thing.

And that’s enough about that. Here are two quick hits before we exit.

JaVale McGee is playing for something

Another nice game for JaVale on Friday. He’s looked pretty good over the last two and is either making a push to get traded or stick around with this team for the rest of the year. Such is the double-edged sword of a player unwillingly on the trade block.

McGee saw 10 minutes with the Warriors missing four bench players — most notably David West, who was away from the team so he could attend the funerals of his friends Rasual Butler and Leah LaBelle, who died in a car crash earlier this week.

McGee seems to be relishing the opportunity to get on the court — though it might be that he’s playing at normal speed while his teammates coast around him.

Still, two blocks, two rebounds, and four points on some impressive alley-oop finishes is a nice performance.

Patrick McCaw is lost

The game appears to be moving too fast for the young guard. Against the worst team in the NBA Friday, he was spinning. The Warriors need to find a way to get him back on track ASAP, because the bad play seems to be snowballing.