Lakers Don’t Have Answers for Kings : Pro basketball: Lineup change isn’t enough as they lose to Sacramento for fourth time this season, 102-90.

The Lakers did some dealing Thursday, just not the kind that would give them a new hand to play against the Sacramento Kings.

That would take much more than the acquisition of veteran center Danny Schayes from the Milwaukee Bucks at the cost of a conditional second-round draft choice. That would also, the Lakers found out, take more than Sedale Threatt replacing Tony Smith in the starting lineup and scoring 28 points or the 18 points and 16 rebounds from Vlade Divac.

It will take something the Lakers haven’t been able to figure out, at least not in 1993-94. The latest example came before 17,317 at Arco Arena, where the Kings claimed a 102-90 victory to win four games in the season series for the first time since 1965-66.

While appearing to go for strength and a power position, the Lakers actually made the move to finesse the salary cap. With a $1.75 million contract for this season, the 34-year-old Schayes fits into the salary slot vacated when A.C. Green signed with Phoenix last summer. That would have expired June 30 had the Lakers not used it, but now they can let Schayes become an unrestricted free agent after this season and keep the same room under the cap until July 1, 1995.

Schayes, who is expected to join the Lakers for Sunday’s game against Boston at the Forum, was originally drafted in the first round in 1981 by Utah. He spent a season and a half with the Jazz before going on to Denver and then, for the last 3 1/2 years, Milwaukee.

The son of Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes had only played in 23 games with the Bucks this season, starting six times and averaging 10 minutes, 2.1 points and two rebounds. There doesn’t figure to be a much greater opportunity with the Lakers, where he becomes the fourth center, along with Vlade Divac, Sam Bowie and James Edwards.

“Danny Schayes is obviously an experienced, veteran guy,” Laker Coach Randy Pfund said. “And I don’t mind at all that he has the ability to come in and bang around inside.”

That was the one deal the Lakers made as the league trading deadline passed at 6 p.m. PST, though they discussed others. One was with Indiana regarding Malik Sealy, who has fallen from sixth man at the start of the season to third-string small forward.

As for the change with the team he had Thursday, Pfund had been contemplating a move at shooting guard for some time, even as he stayed with Smith for defense while Threatt played a major role in wins with offense off the bench. Ultimately--even with Mitch Richmond, the league’s top-scoring guard, to worry about--the switch was made to boost the Lakers’ 99.7-point scoring average.

Threatt scored a team-high 28 points in his second start of the season, but the rest of the Lakers didn’t follow. Smith couldn’t have. He went from the starting lineup the previous 14 games, averaging 27.2 minutes, to not even getting in the game.