It gets sprinkled invisibly on a floundering, splintered team, which overnight coalesces into an efficient machine.
That notion seemed pure fantasy a month ago, amid a three-game losing streak that threatened to splinter the team.
The consecutive losses to Oakland and Detroit in which the offense had scored 14 points have been so devastating, the mistakes that caused them so glaring that Coach Al Groh is worried about a splintering in team unity.
Fresh and rested, Trott's power threatened to splinter the GB team in the final stages of the race, but they regrouped to clock a time of four minutes 22.167 seconds to finish ahead of Australia, who finished in a time of 4 24.335.
Unlike France, though, whose unity fractured again as it had disastrously at the 2010 World Cup, the team splintering into individual egos after a loss to Sweden last week, Spain has calmly held together.
The scientists' theory goes like this: As unified leadership teams splinter into factions, the key players become more competitive and more vigilant in monitoring one another.
A new Chrono series game has not been made due to the difficulty of reuniting the splintered Cross development team, some of which continue to work on Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV, while others left Square Enix (then Square) after the completion of Chrono Cross to form Monolith Soft.
He also said he was concerned that the team might splinter if Sprewell and Houston tried to shoulder the entire load and drop the motion offense Chaney had installed, in which every player is encouraged to shoot.
The discussions at Hoddesdon sowed discontent within CIAM that eventually contributed to its breakup after their Dubrovnik meeting in 1956; the younger members of CIAM formed a splinter group known as Team X, which Tange later joined.
In his last Soviet job, he was chief of staff of an artillery division in the Baltic region.Then in 1991, as the Soviet Union splintered, Mr Maskhadov teamed up with another talented officer, a bomber pilot called General Jokar Dudayev, to proclaim the creation of a new Chechen state.
