A Couple of Things From the Conference Call

I was thinking this morning about yesterday's conference call. I was in for most of it, and there are a couple of impressions or observations that I have. Some of this expands on what was reported in yesterday's thread.

First, this new regime is night and day, at least it seems so to me, when compared to the Shinn years. From ownership on down, it's just more professional and competent. It helps to actually have the money and other resources to put into the team. I also think the link with the Saints will turn our to be even more beneficial than I thought.

Monty also confirmed once again that he had upcoming FA's comment to him during games about coming to NO. Who knows how substantial those comments may have been. But he and Demps did talk about the fact that the quality of the organization (including as was posted yesterday, having an owner who was "all in"), the new facilities (practice facility integrated into the Saints' campus plus improved Arena) and the culture of the city will help attract FA's to this market.

Monty also suggested that there are plans to get AD and Anderson on the floor together more next season. Interestingly, he said that the absence of Smiht at the end of the year made that more difficult. I suppose because they could have used his bulk in that lineup. In fact, he actually said that one of the best lineups this past year was having all three of those guys on the court.

It was a good call. No doubt a lot of it PR, but that's fine. I like what I heard.

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