If you switch on most fouls you will accomplish the intent behind the mechanic and that is to avoid being lead or trail too long going in one direction.
If officials were perfectly consistent in their calls switching would be unnecessary. For example, when you have one official calling 3 seconds everytime down the floor when in lead and his/her partner never calling it at the other end you see why the coaches want us to switch.
Anytime you create a long switch such as a transition,non shooting foul in the back court called by trail right after a hoop avoid the switch as it takes too long and puts the spotlight on the refs and you never want to do that.Simply call the foul "hold" your partner(s) in position with a signal-we use a 1 hand push signal-report the foul and get the ball back into play as soon as possible. Of course you always switch on shooting fouls and all fouls in the front court. Also never ever switch on turnover violations!!
Hope this helps
Pistol
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