Was at the BSM game last night and this kid can flat out play. Hes grown since last year and is now 6'8. Hes added much needed muscle and had two monster dunks. I can tell his mental toughness has increase by playing Howard Pulley over the summer. Saw him at the Sienna Minn game a couple weeks ago and the gophers should defiently be looking at this kid.
2012-Kyle Washington
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I love the turn towards literary pursuits that Gopherhole has been taking as of late! 
Flat out
Meaning
Using all of one's efforts; at top speed.
Origin
'Flat out' as we currently use it, i.e. to suggest maximum effort and speed, is fairly recent. The first record I can find of it in print is from the Manchester newspaper The Daily Dispatch, 1932, which has a mention of "Driving flat out.".
The term had been used earlier though, in the USA. There it was used both as a noun - 'utter failure' and as a verb - 'to fail completely'. These usages date back to the mid 19th century. For example, Caroline M. Kirkland, in New Home, 1839, wrote:
"... the bank would never have 'flatted out' if he had had a finger in the pie."
The two forms of the phrase appear to be entirely unrelated and to have been coined independently. We don't have a clear derivation for either of them. The source of the 'maximum effort' version of the term has been suggested to be various things which are often seen to be flat and could plausibly be related to speed or effort. For example, the legs of racehorses in old paintings, seen at the gallop. Yes, I do know that racehorses don't actually stretch their legs out flat that way when they gallop, but they didn't know that in 1932. Another suggestion, and bear in mind that these are just suggestions and there's no evidence to support them, is that it refers to the spinning regulators of steam engines when running at high speeds. Those are also suggested to be the source of the phrase balls to the wall, with a similar dearth of supporting evidence. Another guess is that it refers to the smoothness of sails on sailing ships when there is a strong wind and they are travelling quickly. None of these suggestions take into account the late emergence of the term though and all relate to practices that were well in decline by the time the phrase was coined. In others words, we don't know the origin.
The Australian expressions - flat out, like a lizard drinking and flat out, like a lizard on a log, are a little easier to interpret. They clearly allude to lying flat on one's face. These are known from around the time of WWII and are recorded in Sidney John Baker's, The drum: Australian character and slang, 1959:
"Ideas of lying flatly (on one's face, not one's back) and of travelling or working at great speed are recorded in the phrases 'flat out like a lizard drinking' and 'flat out like a lizard on a log'."
They are rarely used literally though, i.e. to mean lying flat out, but are just an emphatic form of the usual meaning of 'flat out'.
Flat out
Meaning
Using all of one's efforts; at top speed.
Origin
'Flat out' as we currently use it, i.e. to suggest maximum effort and speed, is fairly recent. The first record I can find of it in print is from the Manchester newspaper The Daily Dispatch, 1932, which has a mention of "Driving flat out.".
The term had been used earlier though, in the USA. There it was used both as a noun - 'utter failure' and as a verb - 'to fail completely'. These usages date back to the mid 19th century. For example, Caroline M. Kirkland, in New Home, 1839, wrote:
"... the bank would never have 'flatted out' if he had had a finger in the pie."
The two forms of the phrase appear to be entirely unrelated and to have been coined independently. We don't have a clear derivation for either of them. The source of the 'maximum effort' version of the term has been suggested to be various things which are often seen to be flat and could plausibly be related to speed or effort. For example, the legs of racehorses in old paintings, seen at the gallop. Yes, I do know that racehorses don't actually stretch their legs out flat that way when they gallop, but they didn't know that in 1932. Another suggestion, and bear in mind that these are just suggestions and there's no evidence to support them, is that it refers to the spinning regulators of steam engines when running at high speeds. Those are also suggested to be the source of the phrase balls to the wall, with a similar dearth of supporting evidence. Another guess is that it refers to the smoothness of sails on sailing ships when there is a strong wind and they are travelling quickly. None of these suggestions take into account the late emergence of the term though and all relate to practices that were well in decline by the time the phrase was coined. In others words, we don't know the origin.
The Australian expressions - flat out, like a lizard drinking and flat out, like a lizard on a log, are a little easier to interpret. They clearly allude to lying flat on one's face. These are known from around the time of WWII and are recorded in Sidney John Baker's, The drum: Australian character and slang, 1959:
"Ideas of lying flatly (on one's face, not one's back) and of travelling or working at great speed are recorded in the phrases 'flat out like a lizard drinking' and 'flat out like a lizard on a log'."
They are rarely used literally though, i.e. to mean lying flat out, but are just an emphatic form of the usual meaning of 'flat out'.
"Flat out", means his car broke down so he is staying home and will be a gopher walk-on --flat tire and all... or not
"Flat out" might mean he is from North Dakota
Local players link at bottom
PG 15 Siyani Chambers (Hopkins Sr.) Minnetonka, MN 5-11/155
SG NR Isaiah Zierden(Benilde-St.Margaret's)Saint Louis Park, MN -/-
SG NR NR Dwight Anderson(Washburn Sr.)Minneapolis, MN 6-2/180
SG NR NR Johnny Woodard(East Sr.)Duluth, MN -/-
SF NR NR Joey King(Eastview Sr.)Apple Valley, MN -/-
SF NR NR Taylor Montero(Cretin Derham Hall)Saint Paul, MN 6-4/-
SF NR NR Kyle Washington(Benilde-St.Margaret's)Saint Louis Park, MN 6-8/185
PF NR NR Kyle Bauman(United South Central Sr.)Wells, MN -/-
http://hsminnesota.scout.com/a.z?s=396&p=9&c=4&cfg=bb&yr=2012
"Flat out" might mean he is from North Dakota
Local players link at bottom
PG 15 Siyani Chambers (Hopkins Sr.) Minnetonka, MN 5-11/155
SG NR Isaiah Zierden(Benilde-St.Margaret's)Saint Louis Park, MN -/-
SG NR NR Dwight Anderson(Washburn Sr.)Minneapolis, MN 6-2/180
SG NR NR Johnny Woodard(East Sr.)Duluth, MN -/-
SF NR NR Joey King(Eastview Sr.)Apple Valley, MN -/-
SF NR NR Taylor Montero(Cretin Derham Hall)Saint Paul, MN 6-4/-
SF NR NR Kyle Washington(Benilde-St.Margaret's)Saint Louis Park, MN 6-8/185
PF NR NR Kyle Bauman(United South Central Sr.)Wells, MN -/-
http://hsminnesota.scout.com/a.z?s=396&p=9&c=4&cfg=bb&yr=2012
From the book entitled-
"He's a PTPer and 100 Other Phrases" by D. Vitale - it's a scintillating read baby.
Saw him play a couple times last year and despite his youth and limited minutes on a talented team - I was really impressed with the flashes of skill, length, and athleticism I saw. He is a very quick leaper for his size - will be fun to watch him continue to develop.
I am anxious to see Washington play this season, as it sounds like he had made some significant improvements. Ryan James (see linked twitters) has apparently been pretty impressed thus far this season. I know UW has taken a look at him, and I would expect them to continue to monitor his progress this season as well.
http://twitter.com/RyanJamesMN
http://twitter.com/RyanJamesMN