Don't recall if it was the NBC folk or Chick Hearn (the Laker's announcer) who recently explained that the visiting coach gets to choose which end for which half -- probably a rule to prevent home teams from creating a more favorable basket for the second half. Whoever the announcer was suggested that coaches are more interested in being able to yell at their defenses than their offenses, and *might* have suggested that this had changed over time.
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