Yes that is exactly it. As I mentioned in my post in the other thread Kishi has this thing about always putting Naruto's opponents at a disadvantage just to try and make Naruto look good. Anyway I didn't really like this chapter, I think its a fine example of what a bad writer Kishimoto is and it seems that Shadow clones are becoming even more of a hax jutsu than sharingan is. Well at least God realm seems to have recovered now so maybe we'll see more than just Pain standing there taking Naruto's attacks and you guys drooling over it.