A great way to beat a high-pressure defense is to spread the field and play from an open set and set off ball picks. By clearing out the crease and spacing your players wide, you force the defense to stretch — if they want to pressure and cut off passing lanes, they have to chase much farther from home.
Once the defense is pulled apart, a simple off-ball pick for a wing player can expose the middle. With no crease player clogging it up, that space becomes prime real estate to receive a pass for an easy shot opportunity.
To counter this, defenders are forced to sag off and help inside — which means the pressure they were applying would have ease up. The result: your offense regains time, space, and rhythm while the defense scrambles to adjust.You can use this as a set play, but because your players will be under pressure it may be best if they learn to start their offense out of an open set and if the recognize the pressure up top the bottom players know to do this without any instruction.