First, if your point guard can shoot the 3-pointer, he/she should get some open shots against this zone, since the middle defender is playing off the point.
Use a two guard front and put your best shooter in the ball-side corner, running the baseline. Put your two post players along both sides of the lane, in the gaps above the low defenders but below the outside defenders (diagram A). Attack this zone from the corners.
Let's assume the defense covers the corner by having their low defender come out. If your corner shooter hits a couple, the low post defender will have to come out to defend and then you should be able to pass into the low post or lane (diagram B).
If the opposite low post defender comes over to help, you can dump it to your weak-side low post (diagram C). But if he/she is being covered by the weak-side wing defender, then kick it out to O3 for the shot from the wing. Either the weak-side low post or weak-side wing should be open.
Now let's look at two options for inside screens...
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