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In the Prequels a lot of Jedi get shot and die, but it makes sense in a scifi reality that the biggest threat to them as melee combatants is blasters and also the one thing they're most trained to deal with. But yes, they can feel their surroundings with the force.
Well, most the Jedi in that fight sucked. They were the kind of Jedi who never left the temple and only trained enough in combat to say they trained. Nothing wrong with that. Their role was academic or social or anything but military.
As a form, Niman was “just enough” to not be totally useless. (It was still mostly useless, the whole point was it was simple for Jedi to learn allowing them to focus on other things.)
They were also severely overwhelmed and it was a math game- if a Jedi could deflect 50 bolts a minute, 51 bolts would eventually kill him.