I saw Meadowlark play as well --- didn't get "dowsed" with the fake water bucket though. Lemon was a real ball player not just a talented clown. Rarely but sometimes the Globetrotters would schedule somebody who was allowed to really compete in the game rather than just serve as foils --- there would be stages where the Trotters were given the free air to do their more outrageous stuff, but plenty of actual competition {these games got rare to non-existent as the Trotters became more "commercial"}. However, in the actual competition, Meadowlark could still score, and did so with a variety of mind-boggling old-fashioned hook shots that would do Jerry Lucas proud. {sorry to bring up an OSU reference at this time ... mea culpa.}
... still there was nothing stranger to me than watching Marques Haynes drop-kick basketballs into the net from distance --- not every time, but there were no bad misses.
