I don't know that Konoha performed that badly. Its bad (ie typical filler) writting that the just happened to face foes that could blanket smell and were immune to Hinata's style of attacks, but given those limitations they performed reasonably well. Kiba took one hit while blinded, then fell back, found away around the smoke which was limiting his abilities, and rejoined the fight - a decent response. Hinata, who is (in my opinion) the weakest of the bunch to begin with matched her foe blow for blow - 2 hits to 2 hits - and got her hits in first. If it weren't for the bad character design in making her foe immune, she would have likely won that portion of the fight. Shino we didn't see in the fight, but sounds like he almost pulled of an good ambush. And Kakashi's foe was the strongest of the lot (remember they said in the fight for survival, he made it fighting by himself while the other four had to work as a team), and even so he beat him cleanly without using sharingen if he had just stuck the kunai in instead of holding it at his neck. And even afterwards, he clearly landed a blow with his rakuria even if it wasn't a fatal one.

All in all... still a filler ep, but much better then the last few.