While stopping by to visit with the Miami Heat at the NBA Las Vegas Summer League, center Bam Adebayo said he appreciates the expectations of what should come next, because those also are his expectations.

Asked during 790 The Ticket’s ongoing coverage of the Heat’s summer-league games about his goal for the coming season, Adebayo said, “Just being a more efficient scorer.”

Adebayo came under scrutiny in the Heat’s seven-game loss in the Eastern Conference finals to the Boston Celtics, with three games of nine or fewer points, games he did not attempt more than six shots.

“I feel like my shot attempts are going to go up,” he said. “The guys want the ball in my hands. They want me to score more. So, my job is really easy.”

While the Heat lost starting power forward P.J. Tucker in free agency, Adebayo embraced the free-agency returns of Caleb Martin, Dewayne Dedmon and Victor Oladipo.

“It’s just good to have a feeling like we can run it back and do something different this year,” he said, “having Caleb back, having Dewayne, having Victor, guys who know our system, and then just everybody falling in line.”

Adebayo said the Game 7 loss to the Celtics stings two months later.

“We feel like we came up short,” he said. “So I feel like that’s a mandatory, to get back to where we were and have a different result.

“It haunts you, because you get that close to something and one shot away. If you look at the game, there were so many moments where we could have taken advantage of the game.”

Having returned from a trip to England that included taking in Wimbledon, Adebayo said another trip is in the works, although he declined to detail that destination.

“I’m gonna take my mom on vacation,” he said.

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