Killing D'Angelo Barksdale was my best move

[Able Archer 83]

Then he was in the wrong game, risking your life and freedom, losing family and friends, for what goofy asss rep, when all he had to do was just enjoy the ride, and never have to worry about prosecution again, with the way String was setting them up.

The problem is that String's way was a dead end. It was a good plan--to expand beyond the game into real estate etc.--but String was the wrong person to execute it. He was effortlessly scammed by Clay Davis, kept getting the runaround from the building inspector, etc. etc. Dude was out of his depth. It would have all ended in disaster sooner or later, and in the best case scenario, he'd simply be back where he started.

"I look at you these days, String, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here and maybe, just maybe, not smart enough for them out there." Avon had a point.

 

[Rell84shots]

Avon wasn't rich. Didn't you see Brianna tell Nay's mom that money was running out.

The money to give the families whose people went to prison for Avon was running out, Avon and Brianna had their own money set aside.

 

[frush11]

The problem is that String's way was a dead end. It was a good plan--to expand beyond the game into real estate etc.--but String was the wrong person to execute it. He was effortlessly scammed by Clay Davis, kept getting the runaround from the building inspector, etc. etc. Dude was out of his depth. It would have all ended in disaster sooner or later, and in the best case scenario, he'd simply be back where he started.

"I look at you these days, String, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here and maybe, just maybe, not smart enough for them out there." Avon had a point.

That's part off the game, eventually String would've learned. He wasn't out of his depth. He was just new to that game

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

fukk you nikka Where's Wallace

@WheresWallace

 

[Able Archer 83]

That's part off the game, eventually String would've learned. He wasn't out of his depth. He was just new to that game

Stringer was clever--he had the ability to learn--but he would inevitably fukk it all up. The tragedy of Stringer was that he had serious flaws arising due to his proximity to the Game, and these flaws would have hindered him (and did hinder him) in the "legitimate" world. Stringer was Stringer, he might have learned the basics of the new Game as time went on, but I don't see how he could stop himself for looking for the easy out by throwing money around (Clay Davis), or backstabbing people (Avon), or misreading people (DeAngelo/Marlo), or underestimating people (Mouzone/Omar), or instinctively resorting to violence when he didn't get his way (Clay Davis).

 

[Able Archer 83]

Stringer's thing was his determination to prove he was the smartest person in the vicinity i.e. his bullshyt market saturation speech in the backseat, where even his goons were smirking at each other over how transparent it was. Could he turn that flaw off as he advanced in the new Game? Could he understand that this building inspector or that city clerk or this businessman was equally as clever, if not more so? I'm dubious.