I see what you're saying, but the preception is alot easier to see a basketball game when players often have to guard each other one on one. Dirk Nowitzki, I believe the 7 time European Basketball Player of the Year, playes on a team that really works hard at covering up his weaknesses on the defensive end. And while I'm sure there are a few hard-nosed EuroBallers, the truth is the games over there are much more like WNBA games then traditional U.S. men basketball. Players like Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic, and Tony Parker do bring exceptional offensive skill they all lack any sort of defensive presence like their american counterparts, like a Gilbert Arenas, or Dwight Howard, or Caron Butler. I'm not saying there are not American player who are the same way, but there is a lack of Europeans who do both.
Not to say either that afeminite athletes don't have a place in american society. Players like Eli Manning are really breaking ground for their thin-skinned brethren in american sports.