This kid skipped out of HS to go play pro ball, which is different than getting out of HS and bypassing the NCAA.
Being a professional at anything requires a certain level of [adult] maturity that Jennings had and this kid doesn't yet. Jennings went to Europe and learned he had to work and earn it, and he did. This kid responded differently.
Personally, I'd just as well see a young guy go to Europe and get paid to play basketball than go to college and let the NCAA money machine make the money, while scrutinizing every gift he gets from anyone. The NCAA amounts to indentured servitude, which, I thought, was illegal.
FWIW, last I read, old pal Brandon Hunter was playing in Israel.