Joining EntityRelations from two seperate queries

Hello.

Say there is a Team object for a given type of sport. And a Player object which has a FK to Team.

I'm querying for all the Team objects, then later, after the user selects a certain option I'm querying for all of the Player objects seperately.

Normally, I think the easiest way to go about it would be to Query for Teams with an .Include(i => i.Players) option. However, in our case this leads to time outs for our users, we have hundreds of Team objects and each Team may more than 1000 Players with their own navigation properties that need Includes. We have a custom class that divides larger queries into several smaller chunks, but this does not chunk Includes.

I guess I want to know if it's possible to Query for Team objects, then later, on demand, be able to query for the Player objects associated with any given team and have the Team's Players collection not be a PendingEntityList.

I've tried two separate queries from the same EntityManager, so by my understanding they should definitly be in the same cache, but after querying for Players for a given team, the entire collection of Team.Players lazy loads when I try to access it.

Also, if, after querying for Players with an Include on Team, I do

IEnumerable<Team> teams = Players.Select(i => i.Teams).Distinct();

The Team objects in teams all say that .Players is a PendingEntityList.

Hopefully this is all clear, if clarification is needed let me know and I'll try my best to reword things. Been reading about this all morning and haven't really gotten closer to a solution.