I'm not gonna sit here and say Monty is a great coach or anything, but that was a deeply flawed and injury riddled roster that he took to the playoffs. When AD missed that stretch of games in the middle of the season that everybody thought would sink them, they went 5-1.
We've gone over this time and again what a poor job Demps has done with the roster, but look at the games missed this year too:
AD - missed 14 games
Eric Gordon - missed 21 games
Holiday - missed 42 games
Ryan Anderson - missed 21 games
Tyreke Evans was the measure of consistency on this team

and then he was hurt in the playoffs. They played GS really tough through three games in their series and blew game 3, but that's what young teams do.
Also, I think Orlando is a better situation than New Orleans. Much deeper roster in my opinion, plus they play in the east. That's the job I would be angling for if I was Thibs or any other coach out there.