"The Indiana Pacers have a hard enough time beating teams when they're clicking on both ends of the court.

They have no chance of doing it when it's a one-man scoring show.

That was the case against the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday.

Forward Danny Granger scored a game-high 30 points, but he didn't have any help from his teammates in their 102-79 loss to the Trail Blazers at the Rose Garden.

"You don't see many times when one guy on your team has double figures and nobody else cracks double figures," Pacers coach Jim O'Brien said. "Danny had a good game and we turned the ball over too many times."

Granger went 12-of-22 from the field to make up for being shutdown by Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest the night before.

It looked like Granger may have a chance of scoring at least 40 points because he had all 30 of his points in the first three quarters.

The thought of that happening went away when O'Brien took him out the game for the night about midway through the fourth quarter and the Pacers down 27 points.

Wednesday was the fifth time in the past eight games that Granger has scored at least 27 points.

"Defensively, a team like this is a challenge because they can shoot the ball," Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan said. "Only one guy really was able to score for them. We forced them to do what we wanted them to do."

Granger was the only player that showed up offensively for the Pacers in their fifth loss in the past six games."