The Chicago Bulls (8-15) played pretty well tonight, but they ran into Kobe Bryant on one of his hot shooting nights and fell to the Los Angeles Lakers (19-4) because of it.  Bryant had 20 points after the first quarter and the Bulls looked like they might be in trouble.  Bryant finished with 42 points, 2 rebounds, and 3 assists and despite the huge scoring night, Kirk Hinrich played pretty good defense on the Black Mamba.  Bryant was just on fire and was hitting tough shots all night, but Hinrich helped force 8 turnovers on the superstar.  Derrick Rose, Luol Deng, and Brad Miller got things going for the offense.  Rose had 21 points, 4 rebounds, and 6 assists and Deng added 21 points and 6 rebounds.  Brad Miller filled up the stat sheet with 15 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks.  The Bulls outrebounded the Lakers 51-37, thanks to Joakim Noah’s 20 rebounds.  The Bulls shot only 39% from the field though and were terrible from three point land, going 2-11 (18%).  The offense could not get anything going when it was needed most, scoring only 14 points in the 4th quarter after leading by one going into the 4th.