This is one of those tricky ones.
In-season updates pulled Desmond Bane up to an 84, which is well above average for the game's 2-guards. It still just doesn't feel quite high enough.
Bane is tied for 23rd in the league in the aforementioned FiveThirtyEight projections, and he's one of the most dangerous floor-spacers in the NBA.
Last season, he averaged 3.0 threes and shot 43.6 percent from deep. There are only seven other players in league history who matched or exceeded both marks in a single season: Stephen Curry (four times), Klay Thompson (twice), Bogdan Bogdanovic, Joe Harris, JJ Redick, Duncan Robinson and Peja Stojakovic.
That, in concert with Bane's switchable defensive ability and improving playmaking, should make him one of the best shooting guards in 2K23.
