Stevens is a good coach, obviously. He has to be if his system can get this collection of players to 53 wins. But his reputation has to take a hit here. He can't be the coach of relatively the same team for the last 3 years, have 3 fairly quick 1st round exits, and not deserve at least some criticism for it...especially when in the 3rd year, you're a 1 seed getting ousted by an 8 seed.
I don't know if I'm ready to say players are tuning him out. There may be a little of that, but I don't think it's the reasoning behind what we're seeing. I think it's more of a case that it's just simply a limited roster. Guys on this team don't have good rebounding instincts and outside of IT, just about everyone else is a spot-up jump shooter, and inconsistent ones at that.