Threatt Turns Up Volume, 116-110 : Lakers: When SuperSonics’ Payton chides guard, he scores 15 points and leads L.A. to victory.

Coach Mike Dunleavy keeps telling Sedale Threatt to be more aggressive, but another voice chimed in Monday to drive home the point.

Thank you, Gary Payton.

Threatt scored 15 points and the Lakers discovered a new tactic--the fast break--to run up a 19-point fourth-quarter lead and cruise past the Seattle SuperSonics before an announced 17,236 in the Forum, 116-110.

Threatt, outscored by Payton on Saturday at Seattle, 19-6, bounced back, but only after a slow start--spurred into action by friend and foe alike.

“Sedale, he’s got to be aggressive for us,” Dunleavy said. “When he’s aggressive, we’re much better. At the same time, he’s trying to play point guard and get everybody involved.

“Some nights, he drives me crazy, thinking about the shots he doesn’t take.”

So had Dunleavy talked to Threatt after Seattle?

“I think some of their guys were talking trash to him,” Dunleavy said.

Said Threatt, a former SuperSonic, laughing: “They were kind of taunting me. Gary and a couple guys. He beat me in Seattle, so I wanted to return the favor.

“It’s always a joke. . . . He’s not going to keep quiet. Gary’s very vocal. I’m definitely going to come back at him.”

Said Payton: “Me and him are real tight. We like to talk to each other. If anyone gets an edge, it’s good for him.”

It would be too much to chalk this one up to Payton’s mouth, but Threatt did start taking the ball to the basket, hard and repeatedly. His teammates, double-teaming and covering for one another on defense with more life than they have shown in several weeks, started running, putting at least a temporary end to their walk-it-up-shoot-from-the-perimeter offense.

Also, they held their own rebounding, for a change.

The Lakers, sixth-worst rebounding team in the league, were hammered in Seattle, 43-33, by the SuperSonics, the NBA’s No. 1 team. But Monday, A.C. Green took 16 and the Lakers actually outrebounded the SuperSonics.

“You’ve got to rebound to run,” Dunleavy said. “It’s no secret.”

Off they went.

Three fast breaks in a row punctuated a 17-6 burst that closed the first half and put the Lakers ahead.

Five breaks in six possessions at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth started a 19-8 run that broke the game open.

Threatt rolled up his 15 points in 28 minutes.

“It’s funny,” he said. “I have a (shooting) guard’s mentality, but sometimes I get caught up in a point-guard mentality. A lot of times, I think I can go, but I don’t want to go too much. A lot of times I just back off.

“Now, I’m coming off the screen and they’re doubling me and I’m sick of giving up the ball. They don’t want me to shoot the jump shot. I’m just going to put my head down and go to the basket.

“(Laughing,) It seems like Mike wants me to do more, but I don’t think Mike knows something: I tend to go too much and get out of control.”

Dunleavy has seen enough control recently. He will chance it.

Laker Notes

A.C. Green has averaged 16 points and 11.5 rebounds in eight games since becoming a starter. “He’s been terrific,” Coach Mike Dunleavy said. “His effort has been huge. . . . A.C.’s a better player this year than he was last year.” . . . Green, on the new Lakers: “We just have to work and develop a really strong work ethic. We can’t win on talent as we did in the past, when lots of games we out-matched teams. We have to work and fight and grind and scrap our way to a lot of victories. I don’t mind. That’s the way I like to play. Hopefully, that will spread to some of my teammates.”

The Seattle loss ended the last unbeaten streak in the NBA, with interim SuperSonic Coach Bob Kloppenburg falling for the first time in three games. . . . Several of the young SuperSonics, notably Gary Payton, are rooting for Kloppenburg to become long-term coach, but the team is reportedly close to hiring George Karl, the former Warrior and Cavalier coach, who recently resigned as coach of Real Madrid in Spain. “A coach like Kloppenburg is what we need,” Payton said. “If he had us for a month, we’d be all right because he’d have us running and pressing nonstop.” . . . Seattle was without forward Derrick McKey, who is sidelined for six weeks because of a ligament injury in his right thumb, suffered in a collision with Benoit Benjamin on Saturday.