No longer should the Bulls’ trio of stars be referred to as a “big three.”

DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic have proved to be wholly unworthy.

A more appropriate moniker after Chicago’s latest lopsided loss, a 133-118 home embarrassment to the Western Conference-worst Houston Rockets on Monday, is “The Beatable Three.”

No one fears the Bulls despite their collection of talent, and opponents are lining up eager to expose that ugly truth.

The Rockets (10-23), with only three road wins before their lone visit to Chicago, stepped in as yet another underdog to thoroughly outclass the Bulls. They joined a growing list that includes San Antonio, Orlando, Oklahoma City and Minnesota. The Timberwolves took it to the Bulls, scoring an opponent’s season-high 150 points while playing without stars Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert.

Chicago fell to 3-8 against teams below .500, the Bulls once again putting on display their season-long penchant for inexplicable inconsistency. The Bulls carried a modest but season-long three-game winning streak into Monday, including consecutive buzzer-beating winners at Atlanta and New York that appeared to momentarily galvanize the team at the end of a turbulent week. They promptly gave back those short-lived gains Monday with another disappointing performance that left observers no choice but to conclude that this team, as constructed, isn’t it.

“At this point, I don’t think it’s surprising,” Bulls forward Patrick Williams said. “I think we’ve shown ourselves when we play the way that we played tonight, this is what happens. So I don’t think it’s surprising. I just think it’s more so a wake-up call. Just because you win three in a row doesn’t mean a team is going to lay down.

“This is the best league in the world, with some of the best players in the world. You’ve got to do what you did the game before, every night. What we did these past three games, we’ve got to do it every night. That’s the mindset we have to have.”

A glaring issue, possibly the Bulls’ biggest, is the lack of a leader capable of consistently transferring that mentality from the locker room to the court. Never has that been more clear than it was Monday, when the Rockets didn’t just show up with the best duo but also the game’s best trio.