What future possibilities the Nets hope their deadline deals set up, and the stars it might include

Now that the NBA trade deadline has come and gone Thursday, Nets fans didn’t get the star they were pining for or the clarity they wanted from the organization on its direction for the future.

“Those fans seven or eight years ago were sitting here going they probably didn’t really know what the direction was then,” Nets general manager Sean Marks said. “I have utmost faith in this group — this group of players and this staff — to go out there and put a sustainable product on the floor.”

As far as how, yesterday can tell us about tomorrow.

Everything the Nets have said and done — the latter always more important than the former — doesn’t point toward a complete teardown.