Spence, it seems you may have meant to write offense.

Just switch on everything, it makes it easier.

1) If the foul is on the defense, you switch (and not because you "have to go to the reporting area"). If the foul is on the offense (the ball will be going the other way), and your area adopts the "no long switches" philosophy, you don't switch (despite the fact that you still need to "go to the reporting area.")

2) Again, the reporting area has nothing to do with switching.

Thanks, gentleman.

Correct. On FT's the L will be table side, the T will be opposite.

What I meant when I said "Free throw administration may require the officials to change sides from where they were" was that if you were T opposite, and there is a foul with free throws, you'll become the L table side (you will have changed sides, and thus sidelines). Same if you were L table side, you'd go to T opposite (again changing sides and sidelines). Nothing mysterious there.

Perhaps an easier way to say it would be simply this: No matter which sideline you are on, a free throw, a throw-in, or a jump ball may require you to change sides in order to administer it.