[The once and future king]

In one sense your thoughts are good. The only problem is that you are illustrating them with a hand that can only be played one way in this situation (pooooosh). If you play a flop it is gaurenteed that either you hit trips or 3 overcards fall on the flop. Bottom line is you want to avoid playing a flop at all costs so pushing is the only way to make sure you dont.