(06-23-2021, 09:30 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Wow, I missed this, but feel like it might be encouraging. Can you summarize it?
Key Quote:
Quote:"In the past, we've had some pretty sketchy draft-room discussions. ... I guess sketchy is the wrong word. I just think it was in some of the past drafts that I witnessed, there wasn't a clear-cut favorite among the scouts. The scouts had their favorite guys and sometimes they were pushing for those guys instead of having a collective feel on one particular guy," Finley told the station.
So how did Finley and president Donnie Nelson change the talk this time around?
"Giving us a little structure in the draft room kind of helped that," Finley said. "So we implemented a plan where we ranked the particular players, me along with the scouts, and we came up with A.J. Hammons."
*Insert A.J. Hammons joke here.*
There's also more to the story than that one quote, but I just can't find good sources right now. Basically, Finley brought order to a pretty lackluster draft process. I've always thought this was a good example of how 1. Donnie was a lot less organized than you'd think for a GM, and 2. Finley was a productive professional influence that the organization needed. That's one reason I think he can still have a strong role with the team now.