NEW YORK — The struggles are real and acknowledged. Yes, Bam Adebayo said, he has to be better.

Friday night, it was a 16-point, 6-of-13 effort with 10 rebounds for the Miami Heat big man. Typically that would be good enough. With Tyler Herro, Andrew Wiggins, Davion Mitchell and others sidelined it wasn’t, in the 129-116 loss to the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.

Moreso, that was preceded by a 4-of-13, eight point effort a night earlier in the victory over the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center to start this three-game trip that concludes Sunday night against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

And two weeks ago, there was a nine-point dud in the home loss to the Sacramento Kings that is part of the Heat’s current run of six losses in the past seven.

“I got to figure it out,” Adebayo said. “I don’t know about anybody else but me accepting accountability. I’ve got to be better. I’m letting my team down.

“It’s going to shift. I’ve been through these times before. A lot of guys go through it. We’ll figure it out.”

Amid the losses, the pressure is mounting, with several in Friday night’s postgame locker stressing the need to break out of the current funk.

“We’ve got to find that breakthrough moment,” Adebayo said. “Started off hot early in the season, you get these shifts throughout the season, where it feels like everything is not going your way. We have to find that breakthrough moment.”

Adebayo’s struggles Friday night and even over this past week were indicative of the overall struggles, attempts in the paint that continue to be off.

“I don’t know. In the first half, that easily could have been a 12-, 15-point lead. I liked that attack,” coach Erik Spoelstra said of the close-range shots that again weren’t falling, with the Heat’s lead in the game never more than eight. “For the most part, those were pretty good attempts. We just missed them.”

Ware’s threes

While Adebayo was missing from close range, 7-foot Kel’el Ware was successfully going bombs away from the 3-point line against the Celtics, closing 6-of-7 from beyond the arc.

That effort helped keep the Heat close on a night teammate Norman Powell was 1 of 11 on 3-pointers.

Asked whether Ware’s 3-point stroke needs to be further built into the offense, Spoelstra wouldn’t quite go there.

“I want to be open, you know, to everything with this team this year,” Spoelstra said. “And like I said early on, I want there to be some surprises. I watch him work, so I see him knock down a bunch of shots.

“I don’t want him hunting for the three, because I like him head under the rim. But when it’s a paint-touch spray and it’s a good quality look, I think he’s gaining confidence and I want to be open to that. And he certainly was effective from three.”

Said Ware, “I feel like I was in a rhythm and feel comfortable just letting it go.”

Injury woes

The Heat moved on to New York amid continued injury uncertainty. The givens were remaining without Pelle Larsson (ankle) and Nikola Jovic (elbow), who did not make the trip.

Although he traveled, Herro (toe) also again will be out for a sixth game with the toe ailment, including now four in a row.

Then there are Wiggins (back) and Mitchell (ankle), who were late scratches in Boston and are listed as questionable for Sunday.

“We’ll see,” Spoelstra said of that duo. “They have different issues. Davion was warming up to see how he felt. It just wasn’t good enough. I had that feeling with both of them in the walkthrough (Friday). With the back with Wiggs, you just have to see how he responds.”