Canadian PG Naz Long: ISU feels like 'home'

 Naz Long wants to set the chart straight.

He is 6-4.

End of story.

No tall tales from the recent Iowa State men's basketball commitment.

“I promise you on everything I am a 6-4 point guard,” said Long, the fourth member of coach Fred Hoiberg's 2012 recruiting class. “I'm not 6-2, I'm not 6-3. I'm 6-4. You know what I'm going to do, I'm going to get the doctor's forms and I'm going to take a picture of them and put them on Twitter.”

Forgive Long for bristling a bit when asked his “true” height.

He's read so many people selling him “short” on Twitter, it's a reflexive response.

“And it gets me, man, because people are trying to say I'm shorter than I am, but it's all cool,” said Long, who hopes to enroll at ISU in January and will likely redshirt.

Long visited Ames for the first time last weekend and fell in love.

With the program and the place.

“It just felt like home,” he said.

So much so that a quick trip inside Hilton Coliseum brought imaginings of what could come - even as he likely will serve as Korie Lucious' understudy early on in his Cyclone career.

“I was on the actual court at Hilton,” Long said. “I was at center court, looked up, looked around me and I felt that I felt the Hilton magic, man. I don't know what it was, but I could see myself bringing the ball up the floor, getting into the offense and hitting big buckets. Just bringing it home for the Cyclone nation, you know what I'm saying? So I could just see myself there.”

Long joins a class of 2012 that includes Massachusetts' Georges Niang, Michigan's Sherron Dorsey-Walker and New York City's Nkereuwem Okoro.