As NCAA men’s basketball falls under more scrutiny due to an FBI investigation into improper benefits, the question has become, would 18-year olds seriously consider the G League instead of college?

Darius Bazley answered that question Wednesday, by decomitting to Syracuse and declaring for the 2018–19 NBA G League season instead via Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports.

According to league sources, others McDonald’s All-Americans are also considering the jump to the G League as well but have remained undecided about the venture.

Iowa Wolves head coach Scott Roth, however, doesn’t see it as a positive addition to the G League.

“I think it’d be disastrous,” Roth told 2 Ways & 10 Days last week when the Wolves visited Santa Cruz. “I think at the end of the day, and I’ve said this before, (G League) is the toughest league in the world.

“It’s tougher than the NBA, tougher than Europe. There’s just so many things constantly going on down here. You got a bunch of guys with a bunch of different agendas, you’ve got agents telling guys what they want, you got teams telling them what they want. And so you’re going to get a 17, 18-year old kid and throw them in this environment with 26, 27-year old men who have a different agenda and try to manage a kid, and it’s already hard enough to manage young kids with one year of college experience. The travel, the flights, the 5:00 AMs, all that stuff is a grind and you have to be mentally tough and to throw a young high school kid down in here I think would be disastrous at the end of the day.”

Bazley sent waves through the basketball world with his announcement on Wednesday. Just to clear a few things up:

Bazley would not be NBA Draft eligible, nor would he be call-up eligible during the 2018–19 season. He would be G League Draft eligible in October and would remain with one team (barring a trade) for the duration of the season.

The question becomes, how much does a team want to invest in a talent they might not end up having a chance to select in the upcoming draft? Is that player a priority over assignment and two-way guys? Most likely not.

He, and possibly other 18-year olds, will be an interesting test case. Bazley, however is not the first 18-year old to make the leap to the G League. Latavious Williams took the plunge during the 2009–10 season, selected 16th overall by the Tulsa 66ers.