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While most people shoot around 20 percent from three-point land, Gill hits at about a 50-percent clip.

“That’s why they call me ‘Three King,’” Gill says as he stretches a piece of masking tape over the bottom of his plastic scoop and places a whiffle ball inside. The word Trakball on the handle is the only clue that the scoop was intended to be used for a yard game invented by Whammo. In the hands of Gill, it is a precision instrument.

“If you don’t have this tape on there, the ball will go all the way down and it might get stuck in there,” Gill says. “I do it this way because you can get a quicker release and it makes it a lot easier to catch a hard pass. Have you ever been in an egg toss? When you catch it you have to go like that.” Gill brings his hands together and in towards his body. “That’s what you have to do with these and when you put the tape on there it just makes it a little easier.”

As Gill’s eyes return to the court, he points at a guy in a black sweatshirt with dark receding hair. “This guy here, Jason, you know, we call him ‘the mole’, he just burrows in there and finds a way to get in close for lay-ups.”

Gill looks toward a heavy-set man rumbling down the court in his WhirlyBug. “The big guy there, Garth, we call him “Garthzilla” because he’s so big. And that guy there is George Sibley. Sometimes he colors his hair purple so we call him ‘purple George.’ Everybody has different things that they do well.”

The 10 championship banners that hang over the court indicate that many members of this family do a lot of things very well. Though 20 facilities from around the country send teams to the national tournament, the Edmonds center has been dominant. The years on the banners begin at 1988 and continue straight through to 1997.

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