Splitting off clones means Naruto will have to dilute his chakra across them, limiting his capacity to accumulate significant amounts of Natural Energy. Unless you're counting on having clones "pop" over time and keep filling him up, it's not going to happen.

While in theory having clones do the distraction work should work, in reality Naruto doesn't have enough control over them to make them anything more than 1-hit sandbags. So far Naruto has only been able to distract his opponents with clones for long enough to prepare a rasengan.