Parshas ki Sisa 5771

Midrash.  While hashem was handing over the tablets the bnai yisroel built the golden calf.  hashem wanted to grab them back but moshe held on and wrested them away.  Thay is what the torah means when it says in the last verse of the Torah  ulcho hayad hachazaka.  And for all the strong arm (of Moshe).
Question is asked didn't Moshe smash the tablets anyway an act which was applauded by hashem.  if so why do we praise him for insisting on obtaining the luchos only to smash them.
Ohr Gedalyahu.  They lost the body of the first luchos but retained the words as hashem later says he will write the words on the second tablets as they were on the first.  Now it would be much more difficult to access but they would get there es hadvarim asher hayu.