 Welcome to another episode the 23 part collection where we are doing 23 Michael Jordan videos in 23 days today We are looking at the story on the shot now You probably know the shot But do you know everything that happened on this day with all the players recounting a story and their version on what happened on this day? Craig Elo retells his version Jordan retells his version as well as all the other NBA players involved on this day Here's the video and I hope you guys enjoy the one thing that I'll ask if you do enjoy these videos It takes a long time to edit them So I'd really appreciate it if you guys could hit that like button Let's aim for 5,000 likes for the next episode Subscribe if you are new for more MJ videos coming out to you in December and hit that notification button So you are notified as soon as the video releases all the footage and video links that are used in this video Are also featured on the screen right now and in the description box down below So be sure to check them out and I hope you guys enjoy the video One of the stories you chronicle in the book is Craig you know, we all know the shot They talked about the shot. Well speaking of that shot Michael Jordan's shot 1989 of course the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs and he was on the losing end of it been Craig Unfortunately for you the anniversary isn't as good as it is for Brad But coming up on May 7 a moment with which you will always be associated. How did that affect the rest of Elo's life? How do you feel I? Feel great about it. I mean, I'll tell you the truth that first, you know, it's it's a bad taste in your mouth But I think as iconic as it's gotten for Michael Jordan and for his legacy I'm included in it. So I'm not gonna complain. That's a pretty good person to be associated with and I've heard Michael talk about it We were starting to become a winning franchise. I've heard eggs talk about it before. How did you make that shot? I've heard harp now talk about how he was supposed Michael will get to that. I got him J Yeah, okay, whatever fuck this bullshit But what I wanted to do was I wanted to get the guy to the through the ball in and a guy that was Michael all of us together at the same time to go through You know what transpired from the huddle to the sideline on the floor and everything from both sides So Brad Sellers with us from the Bulls in 1989 Craig Elo with us from the Cavaliers 1989 the shot May 7th The Bulls gonna play Cleveland in 89 of the best three of five most basketball observers believed Cleveland was better Nobody has picked the bulls everybody in the media. We picked calves. Everybody's picked national in the calves back then We played teams six times in our division They beat us six times six and no six and no So now in our mind we got nothing to lose Bulls been the first game and then Cleveland wins a second Cleveland We go back to Chicago Bulls win game three Wrong game three and Saturday after he hit his 33rd point He was running down the court and I kind of came down along beside him and he was he was saying you can't guard me You can't guard me and I was just like he's never said that before so it kind of surprised me I've always heard him talk, but never directly happens game for Jordan's got a free throw at the end of regulation misses We go back to Cleveland for game five Up to that time the franchise the history of the Bulls was blowing leaves and you're like oh my god This is gonna happen again. They're gonna do this. They're gonna blow this They're gonna lose a series of Cleveland so games about the start and there was two other beat writers Be writer from the Sun Times Lacey banks And Kent McDale from the Herald and me and Lacey's picked calves to sweep three Ken's picked the calves to win in four and I picked the calves to win in five games just about the start Michael walks over Lacey's once she says we took care of you and he looks at Canton He says we took care of you and he looks at me take care of you today We're back and forth the whole time Constant battle last two minutes that game was just insane. I mean it was like yeah, man Yeah, get the ball with six seconds left Craig is on the inbound So Craig is probably the we were not thinking Craig Hilo, right? And so coach Wilkins draws up a great play. He's got two decoys and mark price and Ron Harper and Brad Doherty all on the offside We're so much shredding the other way towards Mark and to Larry and trying to figure out what was gonna happen I was the harps there and coach Wilkins said though it hide the Larry and then just cut hard to the basket and they're gonna try to think that we're going to mark and We're not we're gonna go right back to you and Craig gets the inbound pass to Larry I'm checking Larry's I'm ready for Larry to make a move Larry Nancy's on the post on the ball side And I'm throwing it into him. We see Craig dark We just catch that at the end right and it was a simple give-and-go and it worked to perfection By the time we even got it reacted to it he was to the hoop and laid it in right 21,000 in Richfield Coliseum and the place he rubs Soon as he makes this layup and I'm told just a few people do You talk about walking to the bench Kenny What I say to myself, right? I don't know what anybody else says. I say we're screwed Screw it's only three seconds up on the clock here He hit the what would have been the winning bucket with three seconds left but Cleveland up 100 to 99, you know after we scored The Bulls called timeout obviously to advance the ball when we went to the sideline after I scored and we're up by 199 we had the luxury of having a timeout left So we were gonna do what every team did was let them go out and set up and see how they were We're gonna wait for Chicago to come out set up call our time out so that first time out We're not even discussing anything. We're just Waiting for the 60 seconds to go away in the timeout the column that our coach is like, okay We're gonna do the XYZ Brad. You got the ball out We have no time out Nothing, right? We have nothing right and three seconds remain Chicago With the timeout now has only a 20 That timeout that the Bulls called while Brad and them were discussing the play and who he was gonna throw it into and Everybody we were just over there catching our breath because we knew that we were gonna go back out And then we called timeout and then come right back with a with a timeout And we went out Michael set up right at that free throw line and I walked out straight to him and I said mr. Jordan I said we're gonna call timeout and I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna say to coach This is what you told me and I said you're not gonna score and He didn't even really say but as I said a thousand things because you know He had his hands on his shorts like this and he just kind of looked up at me Like that and rolled his eyes. We call timeout or we had a 20 so we go back over The Cavaliers have used their last timeout after they checked Chicago's alignment We knew they had a timeout to burn so we figured they were gonna get a quick look at it And so we just dumbied up the first timeout, right? Here's our story here at richfield coliseum one of these teams will advance it has been A thrilling game the Bulls have three seconds To try a shot and try to win the game When we go to the huddle again for the second timeout, it's really Erratic in the in the huddle, right? Obviously everybody's got a lot to say Doug is saying his bit with the fans are screaming loud, right? We're down to three seconds on the clock and my mind. I'm thinking it's only three years I got a I got a five count to get it in And there are only three seconds on the clock And I'm thinking about how am I going to get this ball Around Larry as we're walking out. This is Michael tell And all this pandemonium Michael says Brad just stay with me. I'm gonna get free. I'm gonna get free And so we went back out coach Wilkins decides to double Mike, which wasn't a bad play, right? It's three seconds on the clock that at least gives me a look, right? I'm not bothered by long hands long arms. I'm not I'm not bothered by that at all My only thing now is thinking can I get this ball to him because you go back and look at the tape, right? Did nobody else want that ball? No, no, everybody was on the far baseline. Yeah Hey kitty, you know what I'm thinking if I don't get this ball to him. I'm screwed We drew a play where I was coming to the ball But I only had time enough to get one drill. We'll get a jump shot off We're gonna live and die with that scenario So I was doing everything I came to get the ball. Everybody knew where the ball was gonna go Everybody in the building know where the ball is trying to go We know exactly what they got You know, they had Craig Hilo on me at the time, which You know, honestly, it was a mistake Because the guy that played me better was Ron Harper. I said Coach, I got MJ I got MJ So the coach tells me I'ma put Hilo on MJ And I'm like Yeah, okay, whatever fuck this bullshit I get the ball Kenny is a five count. I'm going thousand one thousand two thousand three after all thousand three It's gonna hurt. I'm looking around. I stand the crowd real quick. Nobody else wants nobody else wants this thing We'll get to a thousand four and he only gets free at the end Craig slips a little bit. I tried to make it as hard as I could Of guys getting around me But I would take the middle away most of the time because that's the most dangerous point and he gets free Because he shoved Larry and threw Larry off a little bit before Larry could recover Yeah, Larry kind of went with the okie-dope there And then it left me chasing him out to the wing as soon as he caught it on the wing He was already coming back to the free throw line and my momentum was going the other way So now I'm running to this way to catch him and it gave him time to get down Get his dribble off and get his the launch shot that goes up and I think and I'm standing there It seemed like eternity It seemed like eternity I just get my hand up, but he he stops on a dime and goes straight up and if you watch he kind of double-clutched the shot and As soon as I went by he let go and had a clean look at it and the rest is history And this shot goes through pinning and I just sprint across the floor He left his hand. Did you know who's gonna who's going in? I Not really. I mean I when I was watching it because I had to turn and then look Uh, I mean it looked flat and I think you know, he didn't have to rush But I just didn't think it was going to go in because it did hit some of the rim So that's that was what I was thinking But boy when it did elos on the floor jordan's in the gatorade commercials posters everything else Well, that's another one that elo didn't he played for another eight years in the mba But that became what he was known for my signature moment with gatorade and nike and all of those Is me going to the floor and michael jumping up and down fist pumping After he watched it go in you're gonna be associated with Something like that then who better to be associated with and then michael I feel very vindicated from when we started to play off The dim look that everybody was giving us even I asked you in the locker room I asked everybody You know what was the feeling back in chicago that the that the writer talked about it And you said some of them have written us off. I said well tell those guys to stay home Somebody had written or said that the boys were gonna go home Send them home And so when he hits the shot go home mother fuckers go home Get the fuck out of here get going I can anywhere but you gotta head whoever's not with us All you fuckers go to hell I gotta tell you the first guy over to michael after he was doing all that fist pumping Was number two Craig craig I couldn't get there fast enough Craig craig it's the simple things in life. I get to go back to chicago and it's not going to be a problem It was so dramatic and it was tip-hole We'd see michael do the rest of his career and big moments craig catch a lot of heat for which is undeserved, right? Let me tell you this craig. Listen. It wasn't like he didn't do that to everybody, right? That's true. Thank you It was like you didn't do it to everybody. I mean this is like here craig. I was forcing this was a this was a weekly occurrence What you saw in those games craig? That's how practice was every day. Yeah He only knew once He only knew one speed and it was full speed that shot enabled The bulls to start growing and believing that something special was on the horizon If you know anything about the doug college years in in uh, chicago, they always his favorite thing was get the bottom Michael get out of the way I guess the shot was iconic because it kind of propelled the chicago to that next level For them and we finally got over the hump of losers mentality We were starting to become a winning franchise Now I thought you weren't supposed to be feeling so well coming into today's game You know a lot of people put a lot of pressure on me and uh, you know, I still couldn't concentrate and make my free throws But I didn't have to take a free throw in the last shot. If we shot, I felt comfortable We came in and we stuck tough We hung right in there gave ourselves a chance to win and we won the ball again I told Michael a thousand maybe a million times like I took that away from you. How did you make that shot? and You know this guy was the limit That's the greatness of Michael Jordan great defense was beaten by great office and I and I love This is celebration afterwards. But that kind of was michael's coming out. That's everybody said man this guy everybody knew you're special The legend of michael just kept growing from that point on and all the championships and as we've all said That's the reason he needs to go make shots like that