THE NO BET

Have this ever happened to you where the player is bet happy and then on the flop all of a sudden checks. Of course you bet half your stack with top pair to take some chips and he moves all in. You call he hits a set on the flop and you could have just seen that the player had a monster but you had to bet to lose your chips. The no bet is the biggest tell of a player other then the player looking all around and asks whose turn is it when the flop hits. My question to the poker joes out there. What would you do in this situation ? Push in pre flop try to control the pot and not commite yourself to this hand. I would see a player do this and then fold on the flop lol