Soft looking Bulls again drop another one to a basement dwelling team

Bulls guard Josh Giddey fell an assist shy of a triple-double on Friday, but he needed more than that in the eventual embarrassing seven-point loss to the Hornets.Nell Redmond/AP

This was the part of the schedule that the Bulls were supposed to flourish.

Coming out of the regular-season gate with the minefield of playoff caliber teams like Detroit, New York and Cleveland to navigate, Billy Donovan’s crew was looking forward to mid-November and into early December.

The Utahs, the Portlands, the Washingtons, New Orleans … time to feast.

They’ve done nothing of the sort.

So call Friday’s 123-116 loss to lowly Charlotte just the latest slap of embarrassment to the faces of the suddenly fading Bulls…