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The NBA is for the calling official to go to Trail, I am not sure that dealing with coaches has anything to do with it. The NBA has always had the philosophy of making sure that the officials are taking less steps. (DUH less steps by the official means getting the ball in play faster which means a coach has less time to think about yelling at the official)
They did make change a couple of years ago on calling official going to trail from the umpire always at Center NBA was the first to report the foul when they cleared the players not going to some stupid fictional reporting box on the floor.
NBA's taking it to the sideline is to save steps, how many of us as lead officials who call fouls (going the other way) or a violation stand OOB while signalling? no we all step on the floor so they dont have to go back to the baseline they go sideline and get the ball in play.
NBA has never done the long switches, Finally NF figured out you dont have too.
Not raising the open hand on a violation sor OOB to stop the clock (No one stops the clock on the hand going up, it's the whistle) saves energy, effort and no one loses anything in the game. ( it does save some time too)
No preliminary signals saves a ton of time and effort, and very rarely ever causes confusion.
Too bad we cant learn from this, instead NCAA, men/women/NF/ all want to do thigs differently. sometimes I think its the officials who are trying to protect some little kingdom.
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