Quarterback Analogy
“I would explain it to somebody like this. It’s like, you can have a talented quarterback drafted number one, if he’s not in an organization that allows him to be a franchise quarterback, he’s not going to play like a franchise quarterback,” Strickland said. He noted that a talent on a team “is only as good as your organization allows you to be”.
LeBron James Comparison
Strickland noted that he should have been more assertive when WWE handed him the Hit Row faction, stating he “felt like Triple H wanted me to be LeBron in the Heat, scoring, not passing the ball”. Strickland feels that he should have been the focus, but he didn’t take the initiative strongly enough to be “the franchise guy”.
“It takes losing the job to really believe it. I also felt like I was too giving, especially when they handed me Hit Row. I felt like Triple H wanted me to be LeBron in the [Miami] Heat, scoring, not passing the ball. That’s why I don’t think we did as well. I think I should have gotten the ball and been the LeBron with the team. Like when he lost it in the finals with the Mavericks, I felt like I should have been like, No, give me the ball. I felt like that was one of those moments. I didn’t take that initiative enough, strongly enough, and have been the franchise guy.”
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