An elbow to the back and arm around the body when the ball is out of bounds isn’t defense, tough or otherwise.
Actually, the rules are enforced so that placing your hands on a persons back is a foul, but you can place your elbow in the small of their back to “check” them. An arm loosely draped around someones waist is maybe a foul, but no reason to leg whip said person....PUNK MOVE...you must be Heat fan. No other reason you could think that or write that.