Vegas appears to be successful due to shrewd drafting and luck. More than anything, I think you had a group of players come together as cast off orphans. They were motivated to prove everyone who let them go they were wrong to do so. They also weren't individuals coming into at entrenched culture on another team, so there wasn't a mentality of this is how we do it here. They built their own culture of us against the world.
Once they got rolling and found early success is snowballed from there. It seems like belief is the most important factor in team sports.
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