Basketball is way more complex than that, especially on a winning team. Take the Pacers, which I am familiar with. Every single player feels they are an alpha in their own domain. When TJ is leading the secondary he takes the role. Nembhard has the authority to take any shots, and sets a model defending and distributing.
Hali, of course, maintains what he considers alpha supremacy through making clutch shots, and distributing. When he doesn't Aaron comes along and takes over, threatening alphaness until the others start performing.
Double A has a breakthrough 27-point performance and Pacers put up a video of Obi Toppin's 27
greatest dunks. And I didn't even get to Mathurin, Myles, or probably the grandaddy alpha, Siakam.
Now this all only works if coach has earned a reputation as being an alpha in his own right over the decades.
I think the single greatest question and I know it has been asked before, why are basketball collectors so fixated on alphaness and one player holding value, when team collecting and the subtle value hierarchies that come with that would create greater value, trade, and commerce.
Look at a recent Blez video. They transparently hold out the three player spots that
cover cost ("beat the sort"), at the end of Prizm FOTL breaks now.