Whatever floats your boat. If it's a style of play that would allow me to walk to the Convo bathroom during play, do my business, come back 3-4 minutes later and not have missed anything, that sounds like slightly less than thrilling basketball to me.
That is the mantra of many folks who oppose a shot clock in High school. Till High schools are openly allowed to recruit to a system a la colleges then a coach has to use what he gets in the public schools system and devise a system based on his classes/players/skillsets that year. Really exceptional High schools coaches play to their assets and cover their weakness by adapting their program to the atheltes while colleges go about the opposite way finding players for the system. High School as opposed to the college game is more for the athletes and less for the folks watching than college. I.E. basketball at that level is not a business or entertainment for the masses whereas college has long since made that leap.
I am in no way espousing a return to the days of Dean Smith and fully support the clock in college ball, but purely philosophically, if you were to do an analysis of games without a shot clock or conducted a controlled experiment where there is no visible clock you would only find a handful of teams that would actually use the entire time. Just for fun go up to the Y and clock how much time each possession takes.
How many games before the shot clock (outside of Dean Smith's tar heels) was instituted can you verfy that you actually remember when someone took 3 or 4 minutes to get a shot while you went to the restroom?
There is a whole nother discussion on the skills needed to keep a ball moving without making mistakes in the presence of a team defending while running time off a clock. (fade to a Clip of James WOrthy in Carolina Blue....)