EAST LANSING – Tum Tum Nairn lit it up all summer at the Moneyball Pro-Am in Dimondale, which makes him like a lot of guys in the shoot-first, pass-second, defend-rarely league.
But it makes him very unlike the Nairn who played in Moneyball last summer, before his freshman season at Michigan State. For all the successes of that freshman season — starting the last 16 games en route to the Final Four, winning the team’s most inspirational player award and sharing best defensive player and Antonio Smith Glue and Guts awards — Nairn’s non-threatening offensive game too often let opposing defenses cheat.