“By holding back or whatever, you have potentially psychologically damaged both teams with some sort of arbitrary rule that is not in the book and only yields confusion “
You are joking right? Psychologically damage the team that holds back?
Guaranteed the members of the ‘winning’ team will never look back at this game with fondness for the next 50 years. They will feel only shame. They will regret the 100-0 score until the day they die.
There was absolutely no ‘thrill of victory’ for the winners nor was there ‘agony of defeat’ for the losers.
It probably became a joke to the losers long before the end. They couldn’t imagine the other team was pushing like they were. If I were on the losers side I would have scored baskets for the winning team just to make em happy.
Why play a competitive sport?
I give kudos to the winning team for not down playing their game. I think to do so would have been insulting to the team that lost.
You do play to compete, right?
The winning team did not do anything wrong. They would have done something wrong for making baskets for the othe team. That would have been demeaning.