I think people are using the retrospectograph a bit here.
Evans' comments are not exactly diplomatic (or accurate, I think), but his point is closer to being valid when you consider who his competition was at the start of the Alpe.
Evans' rivals were probably Menchov, Kohl/Sastre, Schleck and Vande Velde, in that order. His *****ing about doing the work is a dig at Menchov. He hardly wants to be Menchov's domestique and Menchov wasn't out of the game--he still isn't. So he doesn't want to bury himself and then see Menchov take 30 seconds up the road in the last kilometre, especially when Menchov's chances were fading more than Evans' were.
Evans did face some wind for once--well, for twice, really, since he did the bulk of the chasing in Stage 10. He would have liked some help from the likes of Menchov and VdV, I imagine.
However, I think his comments are still wide of the mark. Menchov was weak--he had already cracked at the start after following Sastre. Evans did a lot of following wheels at the start as well--Kohl in particular chased down some beaks (very charitably); so did VdV. And then there was the unexpected sight of 2-3 AG2Rs in the final pack, with Stéphane Goubert doing good things. Evans only really hit the front with a bit more than 3 km to go, and then held the same gap to Sastre to the finish.
I thought at the time that AG2R might be doing that with some... encouragement from another team, but on reflection I'm less sure. They now have two blokes ensconced in the top 10, which is a handy result. There was good reason to do what they did. And, if Lotto were paying them, they should have paid them to go just a little quicker!