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3 weird stats about the Wizards' 3-point defense

For reasons I can't quite explain, I continue to be fascinated by the Wizards' struggles defending three-pointers. Here are three things I've learned as I continue to dig into the issue:

The Wizards 3-point defense is so bad it's a statistical outlier

Washington is allowing opponents to shoot 6.2 percent better than average from beyond the arc, according to NBA.com's Player Tracking, the worst mark in the league. But to understand just how bad that is, you have to dust off your high school math books.

Remember box and whisker plots? Those annoying charts you had to make in school to figure out if an entry in a series of data was a true statistical outlier?