A LOOK AT THE 1992-93 NBA SEASON : Show’s Over, Lakers Have Different View of Season : Preview: Without Johnson, West and Pfund acknowledge that the team’s goals will have to change.

It’s the morning after in Lakerdom.

Last week they thought they had a play for an NBA championship, if a convoluted play. But with the dawn of the post-Magic Johnson era comes a harsh new reality.

General Manager Jerry West acknowledges that the old goals “have to change.”

New Coach Randy Pfund acknowledges Showtime is over.

“The ‘80s were Kareem and they were Magic and Showtime and Riles,” Pfund said. “I’ve said from the start that I don’t think people should look at this team and try to recreate those days of Camelot.”

He started saying it more insistently Monday.

West set this team up for a last hurrah, using the team’s $1.25-million slot for 36-year-old James Edwards rather than a young player.

With Johnson, the Lakers went 3-1 with Johnson in exhibitions; 76er Coach Doug Moe called them “the best team in the West.”

Johnson’s retirement leaves Pfund with a veteran team--five players 31 or older--that will have all it can do to qualify for the playoffs. It will play 30 games in a Pacific Division in which five of six rivals were better than .500 a year ago and three won 53 games or more.

Instead of a contender, Pfund inherits last season’s problems.

He wants to run to get the easy baskets that were missing and sorely missed last season.

To do that, the Lakers must rebound.

However, they have just lost the man who ran their fast break, the same player who used to go inside and redress the balance when they were getting beaten on the boards.

Johnson averaged seven rebounds per game in his final season. When he departed last season, then-coach Mike Dunleavy said somebody was going to have to pick up the slack but nobody showed up. The Lakers fell from a plus-2 to a minus-3 last season, which Pfund calls “an embarrassing low point. . . . It’s still very much a concern.

“This is a team that has to develop a grittiness and a toughness defensively that we have not necessarily been known for.”

The player Pfund would most like the Lakers to emulate now is the house kamikaze, A.C. Green, a suggestion of just how different a day this is. The self-effacing Green laughed when he heard it.

Without Johnson, the Lakers still have a bunch of quality players and/or prospects, but their jobs just got a lot harder again.

Here’s a look at them.

Byron Scott--He was the best Laker in exhibitions, averaging 18 points and shooting 60%. He is in the last year of his contract, will become a free agent and if that wasn’t enough to fire him up, the Lakers used their highest draft pick since 1982 to get Anthony Peeler. However, Scott is one of Johnson’s chief beneficiaries and now must create more of his own shots.

James Worthy--He missed two exhibitions when the knee on which he had arthroscopic surgery swelled up. Returning gingerly, he shot 36%. Pfund says he is concerned and will keep Worthy’s playing time down to try to keep from breaking him down again.

Vlade Divac--Divac is a $3.5-million-a-year player, but not everything has changed.

See if this sounds familiar.

“He plays with a lot of emotion and fire in selected moments,” Pfund says. “But as a player in his fourth season, we need him to do that on a regular basis. He’s a guy, quite frankly, who has to improve for us.”

Sam Perkins--His scoring average jumped three points to 16.5 last season and he will be their horse in the low post again.

Sedale Threatt--They didn’t get him to be a No. 1 point guard, but that’s what he has been since he arrived. He’s a makeshift playmaker but can shoot and defend.

A.C. Green--The outstanding Laker last season, this small (6 feet 8, 225 pounds) power forward battles bigger foes and concedes nothing. He will see more time at small forward, resting Worthy.

Elden Campbell--Still improving, he has bulked up to 245 pounds after coming in at 218 two years ago. He still isn’t sure what he can or can’t do. The Lakers want him to concentrate on rebounding and defense.

James Edwards--At 36, he is still a low-post threat and a useful backup.

Anthony Peeler--He opens as the No. 3 guard after a slow start in camp. “He shows some flashes of the talent Jerry West talked about when we drafted him,” Pfund says.

Duane Cooper--Until Monday the plan was to bring this quick young point guard along slowly. Now he is ticketed for an early shot.

Tony Smith--He will play if (when?) the rookie guards struggle.

Sean Higgins--He will probably get the last spot. He’s a shooter, but his game is still flighty.