I worked a game once with a partner who was a veteran coach and he was the losing coach in a situation like this. He explained that he instructed his players to hand the ball to the winning team on their throw-in after a basket. The winning team could then score and they would repeat the action. His thinking was that since clearly the other team for some reason needed more points he was going to give them as many as they wanted. Once the winning team was ready to actually "play" then his team would also play.
The result was that the coach got the idea and took the press off.
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