If Key is as good as everyone is saying then he shouldn't be in the conversation as a finalist, but rather, in the conversation for winning it. He should be guaranteed a finalist spot.
On the other hand I have a hard time, taking the opinion of someone who says no one else in your area belongs in the finalist conversation. Unless you're implying that Mills isn't in your area and is from the Chatt area. Which, you very well may be, since his district comes this way.
My opinion after watching him multiple weeks in our city's fall league- against the best talent in our city in all classifications - is that he most definitely belongs in the class A conversation as a finalist. There was no one in that league-again, players from Central, McCallie, Tyner, etc- who was out of his league. Doesn't mean I think he should be the winner, doesn't even mean I think he should be a finalist. But in the conversation? Absolutely.
Maybe it's semantics, or maybe Key is that much better than every player in the city of Chattanooga. If so, I need to see him play!