"The Bulls are perfecting the underrated art of burying the NBA's worst teams.

With Derrick Rose starting but hardly necessary, the Bulls barely broke a sweat in cruising to a 90-67 victory over the short-handed, overwhelmed and 4-22 New ­Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night at New Orleans Arena.

Rose, recovering from lower back spasms, scored six points on 3-for-5 shooting with six assists in 22 minutes, but it hardly mattered. C.J. Watson shot 1-for-6 from the field in place of Rose and that didn't matter, either. "