nikkas just scrolled right past this post
I already clowned him for it in another thread, not going to feed the troll. The physicality on Steph is to keep him from getting enough space to take the shot. When he gets the space, he does take the shot. Other than that. what information did Chicago give you? 4 feet from a closing defender is hardly more than the bare minimum necessary to get off a three unless you're 6'10" or are elevating like crazy.
First off, he's purposely distorting the table. "Wide open" by the table is 6 feet or further away, but he lumped in defenders just 4 feet away and is calling it "Wide the fukk Open". Second, using the same name for someone shooting a layup and someone shooting a 3pt is a computer convenience but you'd be an idiot to do it in real life. If you're shooting a layup with the nearest defender 4 feet away, you're open. If you're shooting a 10 foot jumper with the nearest defender 4 feet away and standing still, you're open. If you're shooting a 3pt with the nearest defender 4 feet away and closing at full speed, you're not open, you can barely get that shot off at all. If Curry has someone 4 feet away and closing that is not "Wide the fukk Open", they're literally just the next stride away from being on top of you. Those shots are usually taken when he's coming off a screen and has a fraction a second to get the shot off before the defender closes.
And he's dumb as fukk even mentioning the "0-2 feet" category as if that's relevant to 3pt shooting. You shoot with a defender 0-2 feet away when you're making a contested layup or scoring out of the post. That's not a shot anyone in the league does from 3pt range, especially when they're barely 6 feet tall, unless you're just trying to draw a foul or got caught in a terrible situation with the clock running out and just have to throw up bullshyt.
So he's simultaneously trying to use the names on the columns to mean something they don't mean in real life as if "well that's what they called it take it up with them", AND changing the names of the columns when it suits him. You can't have it both ways.
It's no surprise that posters like him who are the first to claim someone else is a "stat nerd" are also the first to use the dumbest fukking stats out of context.