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Examining the Warriors’ open-three problem on defense

Parsing through the list of the teams who give up the most “wide-open” three-point looks — defined by the official NBA stats page as shots where the closest defender to the shooter is more than six feet away — you would think that the Golden State Warriors would be high up on that list.

Here’s the list of the culprits:

The Warriors aren’t even close to being the most egregious offenders when it comes to giving up wide-open perimeter looks — they’re 13th on the list, with a total of 819 wide-open looks from three attempted by opponents this season.