To start, I just looked at how many wide open shots a team gives up per 100 possessions and the % the opponent shoots on those shots. When I presented it to Cavs fans, they had a few gripes. This included that we don't know who shot these wide open shots (they could be better shooters than the norm) and we do not know where these shots are coming from. At that time, I checked the players and not where they were coming from as the play data was more readily available (the Cavs were not giving more wide open shots than expected to above avg shooters).
Today I decided to just pull data on opponent corner shooting, but there is no automatic way to find wide open corner threes allowed and their %. My plan is to manually go through some 604 attempts and count out which ones were wide open (defined as 6+ feet of space allowed).
Here are the stats (not including wide open corner threes) that I have accumulated today.
Let me know if you have any thoughts.
