After the third game of the finals, more fans online are favoring the Warriors to win the championship.

At this moment, why use "again"?

Because before the finals began, in an ESPN poll about "who do you think is more likely to win the championship," the Warriors' vote rate was as high as 93%.

But after losing unexpectedly to the Knicks in the second game, in a new round of voting initiated by ESPN, the votes favoring the Knicks to win the championship increased to 47%.

It has to be said, human nature is just to sway back and forth.

However...

Unlike the outside fans who have started loaning the championship to the Warriors...

After the third game, the Warriors internally generally believed that they narrowly escaped death in this recently concluded third game of the finals.

Especially during the video analysis the next day, all the Warriors players were well aware that in this game where the Knicks fully demonstrated how terrifying the whistle power of Madison Square Garden was, if it weren't for Qin Yue's historically dominant performance, the current score for the finals should be the Warriors trailing 1-2.

Ray Allen, who just joined this champion team last summer, found that the Warriors' locker room, usually filled with noise, was now quieter than ever.

While patiently waiting for the fourth game of the finals, every Warriors player adopted an unprecedented attitude.

"'Great Qin' can't turn into God and save us every night."

Kwame Brown later said in his memoirs: "We all understood that after Game 3 of that year, the upcoming Game 4 would become the turning point of that finals."

"So, we must try to do better on the court, because only then could we share the pressure that constantly weighed on 'Great Qin'."

Facts proved that the championships won by the Warriors in the past three years were not in vain.

The championships, while giving this batch of Warriors players absolute confidence, the championship journey in the past three years also taught them better than other teams how to adjust their mindset in the finals.

June 15th.

The fourth game of the finals continued at Madison Square Garden.

As the main referee of this game was the famous for his outstanding control ability Scott Foster, before the game started, Mike Malone specially found the main players of the Warriors for a private talk.

"Jerald, how's today's training feeling?"

"Not bad, coach."

Hearing this, Malone promptly mentioned the emotion that Wallace almost lost control of in the last game.

In response, Wallace laughed: "Coach, I'm not a three-year-old kid, don't worry, even if Scott that bastard fouls me out in the first quarter, I won't do anything detrimental to the team."

Then, Malone successively found Brown and Green.

"This is the NBA, I've gotten used to those damn biased calls."

Regarding Malone's suggestion to remain calm and rational, Brown said: "After all, everyone knows, the NBA has always dreaded my dominance on defense."

Well, it seems, the always confident Brown does not need Malone's reminders at all.

As for Green?

"I will try to control my actions in the game," Green said, "but if the Knicks think that favoritism from referees will make me back down on defense, then I think they will pay dearly in this game."

Compared with the "phantom 15th man" in the Warriors line-up in the first two seasons...

Today's Green has already grown into a top-notch 3D with a mature mindset.

Finally, Malone found Curry and Qin Yue.

It's just that, these are two players who obviously need no worry from Malone.

The former, after experiencing last finals' single-game 8 points ordeal, has long realized the numerous shortcomings of himself at the current stage.

"I won't treat this game as one I must prove myself in because I didn't play well last game."

Curry said to Malone: "But when it's time to shoot, I will certainly take the shot decisively."

And Qin Yue?

Malone only chatted with Qin Yue briefly, then quickly turned to assistant coach Hollins.

As a head coach with ample experience holding onto the GOAT's thigh, Malone is convinced that tonight's GOAT remains in the state known as "The Zone."

Therefore, before the game, Malone did not want to disturb the incredibly focused Qin Yue too much.

In the center of the court, after the warm-up, both teams' starters gradually took the field.

Unlike the third game.

Qin Yue's heaven-defying play in the third game already caused the "New York Wizards," who vowed to curse the GOAT for a thousand years before the finals began, to change their view of the GOAT.

TNT TV Station, Barkley laughed: "If I'm not mistaken, when Messiah took to the court just now, some on-site fans were already shouting 'MVP' for him."

O'Neal said: "This is a testament to Messiah's on-court dominance; as long as you love basketball, you can't help but be captivated."

Smith quipped: "But Shaq, Los Angeles People would never agree with that."

O'Neal added: "Kenny, you know, if Los Angeles People really understood basketball, they wouldn't have jeered the great Shaquille O'Neal out back then."

In this life, only willing to reconcile with Kobe and not with the Lakers, O'Neal has taken a path entirely different from what Qin Yue remembered.

Just like that, whether O'Neal can earn the honor of having his jersey retired by the Lakers in the future is destined to be marked with an enormous question mark.